Learning From Their Peers
We changed things up a little this week; the students are starting to teach the lessons to their peers. The class, as you recall, is broken up into teams. Each team had to research different areas that are related to alternating energy, then develop a lesson plan and construct a test related to their subject matter covered.
The subjects that the teams chose to teach are as follows:
- British Thermal Unit (BTU) – Relationship to Electricity
- Global Warming – The Physics of the Greenhouse Effect
- Solar Panel Energy
- Wind Turbines
- Geothermal Energy
- AC/DC: What’s the Difference
- Alternative Energy.
British Thermal Unit (BTU) – Relationship to Electricity class was taught this past Monday. The team demonstrated how electricity generates heat and how that heat is measured in BTU’s.
In addition, the team discussed how to wire solar panel arrays to increase voltage verses increasing amperage. The instructing team had the other teams demonstrate their knowledge by asking them to wire their own arrays, which were checked as part of their assessment process.
Next lesson: Global Warming – The Physics of the Greenhouse Effect.
