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ENERGY EDUCATION KITS

• Middle School Level Kits: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8.
• High School Level Kits: Grade9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
• Technology/Design Competition Kit

Energy Education Kits connect into physical, earth, and space science curriculum of the NB school district 14. Complete with theory and materials required for activities and demonstrations, the kits can be delivered by Falls Brook Centre staff or provincial middle school and high school educators.

The Grade 6, Grade 9, and  Technology/Design Competition kits are ready for use. The other kits are in development but may contain completed modules (e.g. the grade 10 Wind Resource Evaluation is ready to go).

Middle School
These kits connect especially well to grade 6 electricity and flight, Grade 7 Heat and Mixtures and Solutions, and Grade 8 Optics and Fluids curriculum. Each kit contains the necessary materials for teaching the theory surrounding the use of each resource as a source of energy and most importantly includes the details and materials required for an interactive demonstration, game, or take home assignments.

Grade 6 modules:
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• Electrical Safety
• Circuit Pathways
• Solar Electricity
• Electromagnetism
• Uses for Electricity
• Sources of Electricity
• Electrical Energy Consumption and Conservation
• Wings, Propellers, and Wind Turbines
• Renewable Energy from Solar and Lunar Motion
• Electricity in Outer Space and the Solar System

• Solar thermal water/space heating
• Solar Cooking theory and practice
• Biofuel energy yield analysis
• Clean and efficient biomass stoves and ovens
• Sterling engines
• Vegetable oil and biodiesel

Grade 8 modules:
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• Basic principles of ground source heat pumps and geothermal energy systems
• Thermal energy storage
• Solar power and the hydrologic cycle
• Micro-hydro power generation
• Tidal and Wave Energy
• Environmental impacts of large scale hydro power generation

Grade 9 modules :
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Sample weather station wind and solar data

• Technology, Jobs, and the Environment
• Introduction to Photovoltaic Cells
• Photovoltaic Voltage
• Photovoltaic Current
• Photovoltaic Power
• Direct Current vs. Alternating Current
• AC Electric Power Transmission
• Kilowatt-hours and the average Canadian.
• Off-grid and Grid Connected Living
• Renewable Energy Economics
• Solar Resource Evaluation

Grade 10 modules:
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Sample weather station wind and solar data

• Sustainability of Ecosystems
• The Carbon Cycle and Climate Change Mitigation
• Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations
• Wind Resource Evaluation
• Hydro Electric Evaluation
• Solar thermal demo and analysis (water vs. antifreeze - specific heat)
• Ground source heat pump case study (putting latent heat to work)
• Hybrid car case study

Grade 11 modules:
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• Micro hydro power
• Tidal power
• Wave energy
• Advanced hybrid car analysis
• Silicon Bonding and Crystal Structure
• Silicon the Semiconductor
• Advanced photovoltaic cells
• Nuclear reactor inputs and outputs

Grade 12 modules:
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• Electrical energy conversion
• Wind turbine blade design
• Flywheel energy storage
• Solar/wind electric system design
• Building simple generators
• Thermal electric generation
• Biogas digestion
• Ethanol production chemistry
• Cogeneration (Combined Heat and Power)
• Advanced biodiesel chemistry
• Battery storage technologies

• Solar Photovoltaic Module Construction
• Operational amplifier control circuit design
• Wind tower design analysis
• Solar thermal collectors and heat exchangers
• Heat pump system analysis

For more information, contact the technology team at: (506) 375-4310 or by email