Summary:
This week we are going to think about how we get the energy we need to power our activities as a society and as individuals. We’ll compare the traditional fossil fuels to the alternative energies. While we do this, we’ll be thinking about how to test hypotheses statistically.
The reading/watching requirement this week is shorter than usual. This is intentional – you should be focusing more of your time on your group’s data analysis for the poster project and you should be filming/editing your group video. We’ll have our video editing workshop in class this week.
Learning Objectives:
- understand where our energy comes from
- apply statistics to test hypotheses
Unit 9 Class 16 [day/date] Required Readings/Videos:
Science Forward Video: Energy
Reading: Muller RA. 2008. Ch 5: Key Energy Surprises from Physics for Future Presidents. New York: WW Norton. Pgs. 65-76.
Watch ONLY ONE (based on your group):
- Group 1: Green Revolution: Hydrogen
- Group 2: Green Revolution: Biomass
- Group 3: Green Revolution: Wind Power
- Group 4: Green Revolution: Solar Power
- Group 5 and Group 6: Green Revolution: Microbes
Unit 9, Class 16 [day/date]Self Assessment
[insert form]
Unit 9, Class 17 [day/date] Required Readings/Videos
Video: SciShow: Facts About Fracking
Reading: Harris, Taylor, and Taylor. CatchUp Math and Statistics for the Life Sciences. New York: WH Freeman and Company. Ch. 38 and 40.
Unit 9, Class 17 [day/date] Self Assessment
[insert form]
Unit 9 Assignments
POSTER: Annotated Bibliography due [time/date]
