Energy Justice

• This resource provides an online activity with an associated worksheet where students explore energy data by state and county.
  
• The activity allows students to follow the scientific method in exploring the connections between energy types, energy burden, and energy availability in different locations.
  
• The videos provide additional information and discuss carbon dioxide, climate change, and energy justice.
  

Positives

• This activity lets students explore and analyze real energy data from the United States, applying the scientific method to important questions.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with the scientific method and have access to the internet for this activity.
• You need to sign up and make a free account with ACE to access to these resources.
  

Differentiation

• The interactive map and data provides connections with math, geography, and economics classes for topics related to economic disparities, power company monopolies, and the ability of companies to make profits off of providing basic human needs to society (such as housing, electricity, and water).
• History and social studies classes could use this map to discuss why the energy burden is higher on tribal lands than in neighboring areas.
  
• Other resources related to this topic include Merging Social Justice with Environmentalism, What Now? Responding to Climate Change and Air Conditioning Ownership in California.