Integrating Energy and Equity in High School Physics
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Electricity in Our Communities Assignment
An assignment to connect electricity generation to students' lives. Students investigate where the electricity in their home comes from.
Energy Generation, Energy Justice
Personal Energy Use, Energy Access, Energy Equity, Environmental Racism
Backtracking Your Personal Energy Use
A research project in which students explore the scientific, geographical, and anthropological legacy of an energy resource they depend on.
Energy Transfer, Energy Transformation, Energy Forms, Energy Generation, Energy Justice, Environmental Issues
History of Inequity and Injustice, Culturally Responsive Teaching, Climate Change, Personal Energy Use, Energy and Land Use, Place-based Education, Colonialism
A Unit on Place-Based Energy Production and Impacts
A unit in which students research energy resources, analyze a local power plant, think critically about impacts, and engage in advocacy.
Energy Transfer, Energy Generation, Energy Justice
Energy Justice, Energy and Land Use, Environmental Impacts, Place-based Education, Culturally Responsive Teaching
Kinematics - Tides & Indigenous Fishing Technologies
Conceptual questions using position and velocity graphs to compare the sustainability of industrial and indigenous fishing technologies.
Kinematics
Environmental Impacts, Place-based Education, Multicultural Education, Ethnicity
From Motion Tracking to Transportation Justice
An introductory mechanics unit in which students track and analyze their journeys to school and explore energy and equity in transportation.
Kinematics, Conservation of Energy
Structural Inequity, History of Inequity and Injustice, Poverty and Economic Injustice, Class, Disability
Heart Health and Microaggressions
1D kinematics problem and reading. Students calculate how far blood moves in a heartbeat and reflect on how microaggressions impact health.
Kinematics
Health Care, Race, Intersectionality, Microaggressions
Solar Panels and Energy Sovereignty
Homework questions about how solar panels generate energy to power homes and how Indigenous people use them to pursue energy sovereignty.
Circuits
Energy Equity, Personal Energy Use, Energy Access, Energy Justice, Race, Poverty and Economic Injustice, Colonialism
Energy Generation and Environmental Justice Unit
A unit in which students debate types of energy generation, research and present on local environmental justice issues, and take action.
Electromagnetism, Energy Transformation, Energy Generation, Energy Justice, Environmental Issues
Energy Equity, Energy Efficiency, Energy Access, Energy Justice, Energy and Land Use, Environmental Racism, Environmental Impacts, Place-based Education
Skin Voltage and Wound Healing
Homework question in which students analyze how wound healing depends on electrical properties of skin and varies among demographic groups.
Electrostatics
Health Care, Race, Ethnicity, Disability
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Energy is a foundational concept of physics and plays an integral role in a web of sociocultural realities, economic issues, and public policies. The Energy and Equity Portal supports high school teachers in teaching a robust model of energy, grounded in the NGSS, and also intentionally constructed to support engagement with current sociopolitical issues.
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