Claire Straub and Stephanie Layton

ECI 546 Fall 2018

PBI Lesson Plan

Clean and Renewable Energy PBI

Ask a Compelling Question
Learning Goals: Your students will…
● Choose a compelling question to research
Lesson Steps:
- Watch Videos: Pandas for Global Goals
Global Goal 7
Energy Poverty and Renewable Energy (Will need to read to students as it plays)
- How can using renewable energy help our community and the world?

Gather & Analyze Sources

Learning Goals: Your students will...
● Gather and analyze sources related to the compelling question
Lesson Steps:
- The students will use devices (IPads, Kindles, Laptops, Chromebooks) with QR codes (QR Code Reader
App) to conduct research and watch videos on various types of renewable energy.
- 2nd grade will use devices to conduct research on K-2 approved search engines on a symbloo
- Students will get into groups based on the renewable energy source they would like to learn more about
and create their project on.

Creatively Synthesize Claims & Evidence

Learning Goals: Your students will…
● Creatively synthesize claims and evidence in written (claims sheet) and visual (digital product) forms in
response to the compelling question
Lesson Steps:
- Groups of students will create a device based on the renewable energy that they chose to research.
- Students will then write to claim why their renewable energy device can help the community and world.

Critically Evaluate & Revise

Learning Goals: Your students will…
● Critically evaluate and revise your claims sheet and digital product based on peer feedback and the
expectations set forth in the rubric
Lesson Steps:
- Our students will peer review by using the app SeeSaw to post their renewable energy device and explain
how and why it works to a SeeSaw blog that is connect to the other class.
- Students will analyze and evaluate the different group’s devices and their clams via the blog.
- The students will listen or read feedback left by the other classroom and revise their renewable energy
device or argument.

Share, Publish & Act

Lesson Goals: Your students will…
● Share, publish and act through a showcase and via digital media
Lesson Steps:
- Students will post their final product and final claim to our classroom SeeSaw journal for their families to
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view.

Established Theory Link:

This connects to Bloom’s Taxonomy because students will be required to
plan, prepare, develop, design, and create in this lesson plan. This lesson
also connects to the TPACK Framework because it connects technology,
content knowledge, and the pedagogical theory of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Renewable Energy Resources (1st round of research)

- Clean, Green, Energy

Cartoon

- Renewable Energy Ducksters

- NASA Gallery of Energy

- Renewable Energy Kiddle

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- Forms of Renewable Energy

- Renewable Energy

- Can Renewable Energy

Power the World

Hydropower Resources:

- Harnessing Tides

- How Does Hydroelectricity

Work?
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- Hydropower Energy
Ducksters

- Hydropower Kiddle

- Hydropower 101

- Hydropower Facts

- Top 10 Largest Hydropower

Stations Around the World

Solar Resources:
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- Solar in Mexico

- Solar Energy Britannica

- Energy Kids

- How Solar Panels Work

- Invention of the Solar House

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- Sun Power People

Wind Resources:

- The Boy Who Harnessed the

Wind

- Renewable Energy Wind

Farmer
- Power Up!

- Offshore Wind Farm in

Holland

- Constructing a Wind Farm in

South East Asia
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- Energy 101: Wind Power

SeeSaw Blog:
blog.seesaw.me/renewableenergy