Engineering+Resources

=Engineering Resources=

**U.S. Department of Energy**
The U.S. Department of Energy provides a collection of lesson plans and resources from related governmental organizations, such as Fermilab. []

**Science Matters! Mobile Science Vehicle and Teachers' Biofuel Workshop**
Oklahoma EPSCoR and the Oklahoma Museum Network have partnered to provide a mobile science museum to rural school districts in Oklahoma. Teachers and students receive materials for ongoing classroom projects in bioenergy. []

**US Department of Energy – Energy Education and Workforce Development**
Teach your students the importance of green energy while enhancing your required curriculum. Here you'll find about 63 creative lesson plans, projects and other activities for grades K-12 on energy-related topics. Incorporate them into your classroom. Prepare your students for a greener future! []

** Energy Kids **
The Energy Kids SM website belongs to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, a part of the Department of Energy. The EIA is the government agency responsible for collecting and analyzing energy statistics and information. Many authors have been involved in writing Energy Kids and keeping it up-to-date. []

**Energy Quest**
Energy Quest is the award-winning energy education website of the California Energy Commission. Teaching an "energy ethic" to conserve finite resources is essential to our energy future, which is currently dependent on fossil fuels. We also must rely on our youth to help us create new ways to harness the elemental forces of our planet and the universe. They are tomorrow's scientists and inventors. They will discover new means of energy production and innovative ways to use less energy. []

**Infinite Power – Texas State Energy Conservation Office**
The Texas State Energy Conservation Office created the Infinite Power of Texas Renewable Energy Educational Campaign to accelerate the acceptance of renewable energy resources in Texas. This part of the site has lesson plans created by a team of professional educators and renewable energy experts ,including teacher resource guides, reading passages for students, student worksheets, and many other helpful improvements in an easy-to-download format. []

**Solar Energy International**
Solar Energy International is a non-profit organization dedicated to education about sustainable practices. SEI has an online course, "Introduction to Renewable Energy," that provides an overview of the nature and applications of renewable energy. Online Course: [] Women's Programs: []

**American Society for Engineering Education**
ASEE is a non-profit organization that brings together engineering educators from various engineering disciplines. A program that ASEE runs is eGFI (Engineering, Go for It), which is designed to attract middle-school and high-school students, particularly young women and minorities, to engineering and technology. Main Page: [] eGFI Program: []

**National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering**
The NACME collaborates with other non-profit organizations to provide pre-engineering study preparation and experiences for public school and community college students. []

**Society of Women Engineers**
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is a not-for-profit educational and service organization that empowers women to succeed and advance in the field of engineering, and to be recognized for their life-changing contributions as engineers and leaders. SWE has a program called Aspire, which promotes engineering to girls in grades K-12. []

**TeachEngineering**
The TeachEngineering digital library provides teacher-tested, standards-based engineering content for K-12 teachers engineering content for K12 teachers to use in science and math classrooms. Engineering lessons connect real-world experiences with curricular content already taught in K-12 classrooms. []

**Women in Engineering ProActive Network**
The Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) is a national non-profit organization that strives to transform the culture of engineering education to attract, retain, and graduate women. []

**Biofuels Curriculum Resource Grid **
The Biofuels Curriculum Resource Grid on our site is to provide educators with information about biofuels related resources online. __[]__ 

**K20 SPARK Program **
K20ALT provides Bioenergy lessons that we have produced via the K20 Center through one of our researchers. __[]__.

**Society of Manufacturing Engineers**
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) is an organization that connects manufacturers to one another and provides information about new technology and processes in many manufacturing disciplines. []

Webisode: Turning T-Shirts and Table Scraps into Jet Fuel
With biofuels, research chemists nowadays are making impossibles possible. []

Planting Fuel: Photosynthesis
In this lesson students will analyze the process of energy transfer that occurs between sunlight and plants as they explore the process of photosynthesis. Students will design experiments to determine whether a bean plant will grow in the dark. Data collected from the experiments will later be utilized to assist students in understanding how plants can be utilized to harvest bioenergy. []

Glossary of Bioenergy Terms
Explanation of a list of words and terms related to Bio-energy. []

Biofuels Educational Resources
Advanced Biofuels USA is a nonprofit educational organization that advocates for the adoption of advanced biofuels as an energy security, economic development, military flexibility and climate change solution. The website has educational materials about biofuels and advanced biofuels. []

Green Gasoline
First-generation biofuels have been hampered by a range of factors. A new, second-generation biofuel known as cellulosic gasoline, or "green gasoline," is positioned to eventually provide gasoline, diesel and jet fuel identical to petroleum counterparts. [|http://www.nsf.gov/news/newsmedia/greengasoline/index.jsp#added]

SMO Biofuels Teaching Poster
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SMO Activity and Teaching Guide
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Bioenergy Summer Technology Academies for Students
Bioenergy Summer Technology Academies are held each summer on the University of Tulsa campus. Three one-week summer academies provide 75 students and 15 teachers in grades 4-9 with GIS mapping skills, GPS knowledge, biofuel and alternative energy awareness, and computer/technological skills needed for research. []

Science Educators’ Training on GLOBE Objectives
Elementary and secondary science teachers will become involved in the international science community as they receive inquiry-based training in [|www.GLOBE.gov] protocols in land cover, biomass, atmospheric studies and hydrology through the SET GO program at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant. []