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Transportation is a major contributor to global warming and environmental pollution. With increased road congestion and advanced transportation technologies entering the marketplace, now is an excellent time to make young people aware of the challenges and opportunities, and learn how their personal transportation choices can improve their lives and the world they live in.
Each year, NESEA provides a number of workshops for middle and high school teachers. These workshops are free, underwritten by grants from a number of sources. NESEA wishes to thank the following sponsors for supporting last year's professional development training for educators. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Toyota USA Foundation, the U. S. Department of Energy, the Massachusetts Highway Department, and the U. S. Department of Transportation.
Please plan to join NESEA at our second, two-day conference for educators to be held in the Greater Philadelphia Area, PA, October, 2001.
And don't forget to stop back next year to learn about more great workshops!
WORKSHOP
DESCRIPTIONS
Middle
School
Sign up for a full day workshop and learn about all three resources.
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Getting
Around Without Gasoline |
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Learn about economic and environmental challenges that drive technical transportation innovations. Become familiar with activities that inform students and involve them in designing the cars of tomorrow. Students appraise natural resource and economic impacts of using fossil fuels for transportation, examine alternative energy sources, and develop a design concept for an environmentally friendly car. |
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Junior
Solar Sprint |
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Spark middle school student’s involvement in science and technology with local and regional competitions of student engineered and built model solar cars. Become familiar with the Junior Solar Sprint program, how to get involved, and where to find resources and parts. Build a model sprint car and review lesson plans that will help students do the same. |
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Grades 7 – 9 |
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Getting
Around Clean & Green |
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Learn about the social and environmental challenges and hopes that drive new transportation choices. Become familiar with student investigations of how people in town get around and the impact this has on their community. Students give back to the community by producing a travel guide of Clean and Green Ways to Get to Fun Places. |
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High
School
Sign up for a full day workshop to learn about two resources.
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Cars
of Tomorrow and The American Community |
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Become familiar with the social, environmental, economic, and technical challenges and hopes of clean, alternative automotive fuels. Become familiar with student activities that identify how alternatively fueled “cars-of-tomorrow” can be used in their community. With each lesson students discover another social, scientific, or technical aspect of cutting edge automotive technologies and fuels. |
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