Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy

Essential Questions: 

• What are the various renewable energy sources?
• What are the main advantages and disadvantages of the various renewable energy sources?
• Why is it critical to develop low cost renewable energy sources?

Gathering:  "A question that I have from reading is..."

Rick's Rap:

Video: "Forward Thinking:  What Would a Sustainable World Look Like?"  Bloomberg News,  June 2016

• debrief, reflective sentence starters

Closing:  "Something that I learned today..."

Readings:  

• Monica Araya, "A small country with big ideas to get rid of fossil fuels," TED Talk, June 2016
• Richard Heinberg, "100% Renewable Energy:  What we can do in 10 years," YES! Magazine, Spring 2016

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it - Mark Twain