Examples: development of hybrid cars, construction of energy-efficient homes

Home Energy Inventory: Watch Your Watts
Students will be able to identify and explain to others, those areas in the home in which energy is being used inefficiently and suggest changes that will lead to more efficient energy use.

Smart Driving
Students will be able to explain the relationship between the amount of air pressure in car tires and their fuel efficiency.
Students will be able to provide an explanation for the ability of synthetic fuels to increase fuel efficiency.
Students will gain understanding of the role which air resistance plays in the fuel efficiency of vehicles.

What does the future hold?
1. The reasons why attitudes toward fossil fuel use and alternative energy sources may change over the next 50 years.
2. How changing attitudes toward fossil fuel use and alternative energy sources may affect car technology.
3. The types of alternative energy sources that are currently under research, particularly for use in cars.

How Many Automobiles?
Students use motor vehicle registration data to calculate the fuel consumption and the amount of carbon dioxide generated by the vehicles in their state.

Driving to a Cleaner Future
Newspaper Activities

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