INTRODUCTION

This link is designed to inspire, motivate, and empower academic and technical instructors to integrate Renewable Energy education into their technical shops, and academic classrooms. Lessons will be interrelated with Massachusetts Frameworks Strands and Standards and Mass. Career and Technical Education standards.

The goal of this curriculum is to:
• Improve student achievement.
• Educate students about renewable energy.
• Train educators in renewable energy
• Update curriculums to include renewable energy.
• Strengthen Mass. Frameworks with project-based learning
• Train students for jobs that just can’t be outsourced.

This link should be considered a continuous work in progress. The fields of renewable energy are in constant change and it’s hoped that this site will reflect the most up to date changes. Lessons will be written in a way that keeps the need for resources to a minimum. A Table of Contents facilitates navigation, but readers are encouraged to scroll through all disciplines because, in scrolling through the various lessons, instructors will explore other areas of study that unexpectedly may be used in their curriculums.

Contributors include science, chemistry, electrical, environmental technology, and plumbing instructors. Lessons are as appropriate for the science lab as they are for the shop class. Feel free to use any lessons applicable to your classroom, lab, or shop. In many cases we have listed the Massachusetts Frameworks strands and standards as evidence of a truly embedded curriculum.

Renewable Energy curriculums will be included:
• Solar Thermal
• Photovoltaic
• Biodiesel Processing
• Wind Energy

Our students are the future installers, repair technicians, and consumers of renewable energy systems. Their knowledge of these systems will help increase our energy independence; conserve our natural resources; and help eliminate pollution and greenhouse gasses by limiting the use of fossil fuels.

Contributions and comments may be sent to lbedard@uppercapetech.org.

Leo Bedard