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Provided by: Fractracker Alliance |Published on: October 6, 2022
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Synopsis
This interactive map provides an engaging way to visualize the locations and prominence of renewable and non-renewable energy infrastructure in the United States.
It shows the locations and details of power plants, processing plants, refineries, ports, chemical plants, storage sites, and pipelines.
Students can personalize their map by selecting the type of map and what information to display and then share an online link to their map.
This is a great way to visualize the prominence of clean energy production in the United States.
Additional Prerequisites
Certain layers of the map will not be visible until zoomed in.
Students can zoom in and out of the map and select specific locations as well as their own.
Students should have a general understanding of different sources of energy and whether they are renewable or non-renewable.
Differentiation
Students can be tasked with trying to determine why there are more of certain energy sources in specific locations like near coastlines or in hotter areas.
This resource can be used in social studies classes during lessons about policy building for a clean energy transition and in science and geography classes during lessons about the impact of certain energy sources on the local environment and where they are located.
In a geography class, have students use the "Measure" tool to measure the distance between two places or find the latitude and longitude of a location.
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