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NOVA Spark Educator Newsletter
THIS MONTH ON NOVA:
Mt. St. Helens: Back From the Dead
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Will your students lead a clean energy revolution? This month, NOVA's new program, Power Surge, focuses on the latest and greatest innovations in clean energy--from
artificial trees to green reboots of familiar technologies like coal
and nuclear energy. Bring the program into your classroom with the rich
resources, below. Want more? Join us on Facebook and Twitter, or visit the NOVA Teachers and Teachers' Domain websites to tap a wealth of great STEM-related video clips, animations,
interactives, and activities. Keep investigating! Rachel Connolly, Director of Education, NOVA
Capturing Carbon: How did a 12-year-old's science experiment and an artificial tree enable a scientific breakthrough? A new technology captures an important greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), from the air.
Video (5m 25s), Grades 6-12
Solar Panels for Your Home: How is solar energy converted to usable energy?
Explore the inner workings of solar panels and meet two families who use solar technologies for their energy needs.
Video (3m 55s), Grades 6-12
Inside a Solar Cell: Then, step through the process of what happens inside a solar panel.
Interactive, Grades 9-12
Algae Fuel: How do you get from the swamp to the power grid? Understand how algae--also known as pond scum--is the next potential biodiesel superstar.
Video (10m 57s), Grades 6-12
From Pond Scum to Power: Then, discover how and why algae make oil.
Interactive, Grades 9-12
Fuel Cells: Is there a highly efficient source of power that is also non-polluting?
Watch the electrochemical reaction that takes place within a hydrogen fuel cell.
Video (5m 50s), Grades 6-12
Ethanol Biofuel: How can we make ethanol without using up our corn resources?
Take
a closer look at ethanol, a cleaner-burning fuel alternative to
gasoline, and the efforts being made to produce it more efficiently.
Video (5m 33s), Grades 9-12
Design Squad Nation: Build Big and Win!: Get
excited about engineering! PBS's Design Squad Nation is challenging
kids to enter the Build Big contest and make a giant version of any DSN
activity--like these Green challenges! For more information, rules, and to enter, go to pbskids.org/designsquadnation.
Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS viewers.
Exclusive funding for "The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers" is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Major funding for "Power Surge" is provided by the Kendeda Fund.
Additional funding for this program is provided by Michael and Roxanne Zak, the Earth Science Program at NASA and by the Millicent and Eugene Bell Foundation.
