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Your Future in MHK Teacher Guide

Source: National Energy Education Development (NEED) Project

Description: Career and Technology Education activities that provide hands-on experience with electricity, magnetism, and generating electricity from marine environments.

Topics explored: Energy in many forms; transforming energy forms into other forms; ten energy sources (five renewable and five nonrenewable); electricity is generated when a coil of conducting wire is moved in an electric field or when magnets are moved through or around a coil of conducting wire; electricity generated using the energy found in tides, ocean currents, and waves; experimental marine hydrokinetic technologies; geographic and environmental factors to be considered; demand for people trained to pilot the vessels designed to install and maintain the equipment.

Education Level

• High School

Resource Type

• Teach the Teacher Programs, Teacher Kits

Subject

• Env Science

• Engineering

Topic

• Energy Basics

• Careers