Webinar & Workshop Part 1 (Virtual) -  Unit 6: Electricity, Power Production, & Climate Science

This webinar session will give you an overview of Patterns Physics Unit 6. This unit is loaded with phenomena. The real world task of being a member of Oregon's Energy Commission that must create a 50-Year Energy Plan propels students through a learning arc that includes electricity, magnetism, power production, and climate science. After the Request for a 50-Year Energy Plan students jigsaw energy sources and power production. They need to understand the basic physics of how generators works leads us to build and explore motors (starting with speakers which also connect to the Waves & Technology unit) and inefficient generators (electric guitars). The need for large amounts of energy and efficient generators motivates us to engineer wind turbines and optimize solar cells for a local facilities use. Creating the rubric to evaluate large scale power production launches us into climate science. With all the learning of the unit students and many real world constraints students finally complete, compare, and evaluate their 50-Year Energy Plan.  It is designed to go over all key parts of the unit. Participants need to attend this session if they plan on attending the Part 2 Workshop on March 4, 2024.

Facilitators: Bradford Hill & Matt McCollum