Energy
Activities and Programs
Exploring the Universe: Static Electricity
Exploring Forces - Static Electricity
Exploring the Solar System: Magnetic Fields
Build a Battery
Exploring Fabrication - Electroplating
Exploring Properties - Electric Squeeze
Battery Stack
The Electric Squeeze
Rocket Reactions
Spark of Life
Frankenstein 200 Kit
Dye Sensitized (Raspberry Juice) Solar Cell
Tiny Solutions to Our Big Energy Problem
Intro to Nano Cart Demo
Exploring Materials - Graphene
Moon Adventure Game
Related Collections of Resources
Earth Day
Climate Change
National Chemistry Week
Light Activities
Carbon
Graphene - Conducting Electricity
Nobel Winning Experiment
Exploring Materials - Graphene
Zoom into a Pencil Line of Graphene with an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) - Illustration
Forms of Carbon
Scientific Image - Graphene models
Annual Events
- National Static Electricity Day (January 9)
- Earth Day (April 22) / Earth Month
- Earth Day: www.earthday.org
- National Environmental Education week https://www.neefusa.org/education/eeweek
- NISE Network Earth Day resources www.nisenet.org/earthday
- NISE Network climate change resources https://www.nisenet.org/climatechange
- Earth Science Week (second full week in October)
- National Chemistry Week (third full week in October)
- ACS National Chemistry Week website www.acs.org/ncw
- NISE Network Earth Day resources https://www.nisenet.org/ncw
- Nuclear Science Week (NSW) (third week in October)
More Resources
- US Department of Energy
Energy Literacy Framework Energy Literacy: Essential Principles for Energy Education - US Department of Energy https://www.energy.gov/stem-rising
- How to Smile collection of hands-on activities https://www.howtosmile.org/topics/energy
- Paper circuits activity https://chandra.si.edu/make/#circuits
Finding STEM Experts
- See the "Environmental Sciences" and "Chemistry and Physics" sections of Working with STEM Experts: A Guide for Educators in Museums and Other Informal Learning Settings