Sentences with phrase «students about the energy»

Percoco's lawyers have argued that the consultant payments were tied to the downstate energy firm compensating his wife's legitimate work to develop a curriculum and teaching grade school students about energy as part of the firm's public relations effort.

curriculum teaches students about energy with hands - on, science - based, interdisciplinary lessons.

To help students make sense of the «hard choices» around alternative energy, she wanted to find teaching materials on energy budgeting that she could use to teach her students about energy options in a more nuanced and rigorous way.

Not exact matches

It was designed to be a shared space where students and members of the education community — professors, deans, researchers — can learn about the many opportunities offered by the energy industry in general and Total in particular.

Farrell notes that colleges and universities tout the successes of their incoming students — test scores, academic achievement, acceptance rates, and the like — but rarely spend the same amount of energy sharing data about job placement and success rates of graduates.

Passionate about the University of Calgary, Schmidt and Laricina Energy Ltd. both played pivotal roles in the Engineering Leaders Campaign at the Schulich School of Engineering, funding a five - year scholarship program, a chemical and petroleum engineering graduate student space, a boardroom in the new engineering building expansion, and a portion of the Canada Research Chair in Energy and Imaging.

Pfeiffer's interests and expertise led him to the unique 16 - month sustainable energy program which draws about 30 students each year.

Energy and Capital editor Christian DeHaemer yells at the government, discusses how student debt is getting out of hand and talks about how the government only growing and never shrinking could be a way for investors to profit from their negligence.

During the college years a student's religion must fight its way against the high - pressured tempo of the modern campus, the welter of competing social claims, the campus gods of football or fraternity or romance that leave little time or energy to think about religion and the Church.

Other proposals regarding greater use of renewable energy, reducing student hunger, moving the New York Islanders to a new site in Nassau County and hearings about the elimination of a special minimum wage for tipped workers were pre-announced, piecemeal, over the last several weeks.

The incident saw about 18 students of both Wenchi Senior High School and University of Energy and Natural Resources losing their lives.

As director of SU's sustainability education, May «works with professors and students from all disciplines, as well as with staff in energy management, food services, parking and transportation, buildings and grounds, and waste management to promote understanding and research about the university as a whole system of resources and best practices,» according to a university webpage.

Some photos from STSW's presentation to Tiger Ventures in December 2016: the students learned about solar energy and made solar - powered cars

Working mainly with students from Binghamton University, interns learn about solar power and energy efficiency, and work in the community to educate others on how to make energy improvements easy.

Hendrick Hudson School District, a system with nearly 2,500 students, derives about a third of its annual budget — or $ 24 million — from Indian Point Energy Center owner Entergy Corp..

To help make ideas about energy more concrete, for example, the new unit will use a variety of analogies from more familiar physical systems (e.g., combustion and charging a cellphone battery) to help students understand those same energy - releasing and energy - requiring chemical reactions and energy transfer when they occur in living organisms (e.g., cellular respiration, creating a charge across a membrane in mitochondria and nerve cells) where the reactions are more complex and difficult to observe.

The workshop will demonstrate how the units tackle some key problems, including persistent misconceptions that many students have about matter and energy.

«Many middle school students and college undergraduates share some of the same misunderstandings about energy, so it's clear that a whole new approach is needed.»

Project 2061 receives funding to develop a multimedia curriculum unit to help high school biology students understand complex ideas about energy.

Working together, they will develop and test a variety of learning experiences in which students use online simulations to model energy - releasing and energy - requiring reactions, analyze and interpret data to make predictions about energy phenomena, and use evidence from their own observations or from simplified versions of scientific articles to explain phenomena and construct and critique arguments.

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With a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, Project 2061 is developing a new six - week curriculum unit to help high school students understand and use important ideas about energy to explain fundamental processes in living organisms.

AAAS Project 2061 is developing assessment items to measure late elementary, middle, and high school students» understanding of ideas about energy.

Given the central role that energy plays in every aspect of modern life, finding out what students know about energy concepts is critical.

In a new video, Project 2061 researchers Cari Herrmann - Abell and George DeBoer talk about their efforts to develop assessments that can help teachers evaluate what elementary, middle, and high school students know about a broad range of energy ideas.

Our only interest is to learn how students respond to these test items so that we can design items that are valid measures of what students know about important energy ideas.

The new book brings together current thinking and findings about energy education: what students should know about energy, what can be learned from research on teaching and learning, what the major challenges are for teachers, and how to meet those challenges in the future.

The assessment instrument is designed to measure students» understanding of energy at basic, intermediate, and advanced levels and draws on a bank of 372 multiple choice items targeting 14 different key ideas about energy forms, transformations, and transfers.

Cola has focused on public engagement on many fronts, working to inspire K - 12 students and their teachers to learn about the latest research in nano - and energy technologies.

Presenting findings from research conducted through a grant from the National Science Foundation, Herrmann Abell and DeBoer point in their chapter to steady but modest improvement in students» understanding of energy from middle to high school, but they also note that «even after years of instruction, many students have a very limited and unsophisticated understanding of the formal conventions for thinking and talking about energy.»

«Our goal is to provide some good models of assessments that can reveal what students know about energy - related disciplinary core ideas and how well they can use those ideas along with science practices and crosscutting concepts to make sense of energy - related phenomena,» said Herrmann - Abell.

Schmitz, an Iowa State graduate student of civil, construction and environmental engineering, and Sri Sritharan, Iowa State's Wilson Engineering Professor and leader of the's College of Engineering's Wind Energy Initiative, were trying to answer some basic questions about using concrete panels and columns to build wind turbine towers using prefabricated, easily transportable components.

For example, students learn about energy in physics and biology, and whether the examples deal with colliding cars or sugar stored in plants, «it's still energy,» said Susan Rundell Singer, lead editor of a 2012 National Academies of Science report on DBER.

The models often introduce or reinforce misconceptions about energy that many students have, including the incorrect notion that energy is matter.

Using Rasch modeling to explore students» understanding of elementary school ideas about energy.

Each new test item and the three grade - level assessments will be pilot - and field - tested with students, and a complete statistical analysis of the data will be used to ensure that the tests are valid measures of what students know about energy.

«The students became excited about using familiar materials from their everyday lives to meet a real - world energy challenge,» Chen recounted.

Knowing they had support seemed to make students less concerned about depleting their mental energy on mere entertainment.

Each test item will be designed to reveal misconceptions students might have about energy while also requiring them to engage in important scientific practices such as making predictions, explaining energy phenomena, and interpreting tables, charts, and diagrams.

They hoped the blinking lights, which spell out «MFC» during the rest of the year, would prompt students to ask questions about the unique alternative energy source in a bucket.

If you've always wanted to learn about the science behind plasma physics and fusion energy, you can listen to the very same lectures being offered to college students at PPPL in a weeklong introductory course this week without having to leave your home or office.

about Delgado - Aparicio urges middle school students to pursue careers in science and join the quest for fusion energy

Director Dot Harris, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, will be on the line with Dr. Rebecca Spyke - Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and Policy at NASA; Jill Fuss, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Stilson, Engineer at Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a class at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, to discuss ways to find role models for young people in STEM fields and answer questions from students and the general public about STEM careers.

Turekian's last visit to Trieste, in 2013, was during the first AAAS - TWAS workshop on innovative energy policies for sustainable development, which has featured the participation of about 20 students from developing countries and a group of experts in the field.

Together, we've talked to hundreds of high school students about climate change solutions, and we were keynote speakers at a clean energy rally in Salt Lake City this winter.

Resources for students include games and presentations to help them learn more about energy.

The Geekbus serves as a mobile STEM lab in Texas, giving underserved K — 12 students the opportunity to learn about robotics, renewable energy, and engineering.

With all of his energy now being channeled into the program, Wang has made great strides over the past year, and the TEALS program has expanded into 37 schools across eight different states reaching about 2,000 students — 300 of whom are AP computer science students.

After finding all the ways energy is being used in the picture above, have the students write plays, songs, commercials or skits about the energy sources used.

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