Social media in seven minutes: Share with students

Here's a link showing how critical skills in social media have become.  Give it a look and share with your students; this is the world we can help them prepare to enter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mid8p4A6Eg&feature=youtu.be

Sun, and wind!

We had a sunny day to visit Kawailoa Wind Farm with our friends from First Wind, Adam Young and Carolyn Unser.  Sun, wind, great views, and amazing technology!

Our visiting teachers on Oahu will have a lot to share with their students.  Newest blade designs minimize sound and boost performance.  These are 2 . 3 megawatt (million watt) turbines!

Losing our marbles?

Teachers in our Oahu IEI refresher course used marbles to simulate electricity flowing through a Smart Grid.  What happens to the flow of marbles from a wind farm when there's a lull?  Or the flow from PV panels when a cloud appears?  Will all the customers receive their marbles?  Who gains, and who loses?  Thanks for help from Hawaiian Electric's Sam Nichols and Cybil Rawlins.

Inquiring About Energy--On Oahu

Artist or scientist?  Kellie T. proves you can be both

 

Our group pauses, mid-experiment, for a photo

Using the sun's energy to pump water:  Transformation of energy

You know your students are using inquiry learning if the teacher can relax in the background

Star in Your Own Movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__-7tpK_1wc


Our experienced IEI teacher Melinda White, of Kihei Charter School, has just finished her first major movie production!  Of course, she built the movie (it runs five minutes) around her class lesson on Photovoltaic Energy, but she gives a good overview of energy and life on the islands at the same time.  Nice job, Melinda, and Roll Credits!

Connecting in Oahu: IEI on the road again!

Here's our IEI team on another visit to Oahu--thanks for program friends like Anna Romano, Charles Wang, and Sam Nichols who can share renewable energy ideas with our workshop teachers. 

Cool Example of Teacher Website

Our IEI graduate Carolyn Bush has been generous in sharing her classroom website, which even has a tab for Island Energy Inquiry lessons and activities.  What a nice review for her students and families, and what lucky Hawaii students to have such a creative teacher!  Here's the link: 
http://www.kamalii.k12.hi.us/~cbush/Island_Energy/Island_Energy.html