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Success Indicator: You will understand how the sun's energy can be used to heat homes and water to reduce energy to heat homes and water to reduce energy use from fossil fuels.
Life Skills Practiced: problem-solving, decision making, critical thinking, planning/organizing, and wise use of resources
Project Skills Practiced: identifying how homes are positioned on lots to take advantage of the sun's energy.
Helper's Guide to Section 4: The Environmental Touch
Activity 2: Go Surf
Search the Internet for information on active and passive solar systems for homes. For more ideas, search the Internet at .gov and .edu sites for solar and passive solar information. Here are some places to start:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- U.S. Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
- The Energy Story - Chapter 15: Solar Energy
- Solar Energy International (SEI): For Older Kids
- U.S. Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Building Technologies Program
- Energy Information (EIA): Energy Kids Page
- Green Energy Ohio: Passive Solar Home Design Checklist (105 KB PDF)
- U.S. Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Passive Solar Design for the Home (220 KB PDF)
- U.S. Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Passive Solar Energy (240 KB PDF)
- Energy Information Administration (EIA): Kids: Solar Energy
- Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
