This resource discusses a sometimes forgotten solution to climate change, energy conservation.
The video explains the importance of energy conservation and methods for conserving energy at a personal and societal level and there are practice questions to check for comprehension.
Teaching Tips
Positives
The video provides ways for individuals and society to conserve energy.
The video uses graphs and diagrams to explain energy consumption data.
Additional Prerequisites
The video uses data on the United States' energy consumption.
Students should be familiar with common energy sources and the ways we use electricity in daily life.
Differentiation
Science classes could use this video for lessons on energy consumption, energy conservation, or the environmental impacts of energy use.
Math, statistics, or science classes could use this video to practice reading and interpreting graphs and diagrams.
After watching this video, social studies classes could discuss personal action versus social action.
Civics classes could discuss current and potential energy conservation regulations or policies.
Economic classes could discuss the financial impacts of energy conservation on a micro and macro scale.
This 6-minute video discusses strategies for reducing energy consumption, both on a household or residential level and within systems that make up our society, including the transportation, industrial, and commercial sectors. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
HS-ESS3-2 Evaluate competing design solutions for developing, managing, and utilizing energy and mineral resources based on cost-benefit ratios.
HS-ESS3-4 Evaluate or refine a technological solution that reduces impacts of human activities on natural systems.
ETS1: Engineering Design
HS-ETS1-1 Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants.
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
Dimension 2: Civics
D2.Civ.14.9-12 Analyze historical, contemporary, and emerging means of changing societies, promoting the common good, and protecting rights.