Top Solar Energy Facts E-Book

Positives

• This easy-to-understand e-book is a great way to introduce students to the benefits of solar energy.
• This resource also includes a list of facts that students can post to their social media to spread the word about solar.
• The text invites readers to engage with the Climate Reality Project in their city to become more involved in local climate action.

Additional Prerequisites

• To download the e-book, students and teachers need to create a free account.
• The e-book focuses primarily on photovoltaic solar.
• Before reading the text, students should be familiar with terms like renewable, costs, and Big Polluters.
• At the end of the text, the authors ask for donations.

Differentiation

• Although only briefly mentioned in the text, energy storage is critical to expanding solar energy and should be discussed in more detail in class.
• Have students consider what factors (e.g., costs, special interests, etc.) prevent more countries and cities from investing more in solar.
• Have students investigate passive solar solutions that use light or heat from the sun to reduce energy usage in buildings.
  
• This resource can be used in economics classes during lessons about how energy generation impacts the economy and in history classes during lessons about how the use of different energy sources has changed over time and why.
• For connections to math or geography classes, this other resource provides quantitative data about solar power generation in different countries.