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Renewable Energy Study Program
for Elementary School Children

by Microenvironment Research Group


Seattle City Light funded the study guide as an educational outreach program for conservation and renewable energy technologies. We not only produced the study guide, we also ran a demonstration class at Decatur Elementary School. I was a coauthor of the study guide. My particular emphasis was on the Earth unit. I also worked in class on a subsequent incarnation of the program aimed at expanding the age appropriateness of the lessons. I later developed new demonstrations including a fully functional passive solar hot water heater made from garden hose, cardboard and a plastic bucket.

Read the goals for our elementary school study guide in the first three paragraphs of the preface.

Review the Table of Contents to examine the scope of our 180-page teacher's guide.