Alternative Energy Resources For Kids
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 at
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Alternative Energy from Children (and 17 other sources)
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope $5.58 Amazon Best of the Month, September 2009: Discarded motor parts, PVC pipe, and an old bicycle wheel may be junk to most people, but in the inspired hands of William Kamkwamba, they are instruments of opportunity. Growing up amid famine and poverty in rural Malawi, wind was one of the few abundant resources available, and the inventive fourteen-year-old saw its energy as a way to power his dreams. … |
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Environmental Science Activities Kit: Ready-to-Use Lessons, Labs, and Worksheets for Grades 7-12 (J-B Ed: Activities) $16.95 This timely update of the popular Environmental Science Activities Kit includes more than 35 lessons for middle and high school science teachers on the most compelling and relevant environmental topics, such as global warming, food and water production, alternative energy sources, endangered species, land-use issues, and many more…. |
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Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy $2.57 Gwyneth Cravens on Why Going Green Means Going Nuclear “Most of us were taught that the goal of science is power over nature, as if science and power were one thing and nature quite another. Niels Bohr observed to the contrary that the more modest but relentless goal of science is, in his words, ‘the gradual removal of prejudice.’ By ‘prejudice,’ Bohr meant belief unsupported by evidence.” -… |