Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1-Student Activities and Investigations -- 1 - What Exactly Is Energy? -- 2 - Burning A Candle at Both Ends -- Make Your Own Digital Thermometer! -- 4 - Evaporating Is Cool -- 5 - Save the Penguins -- 6 - Warming to Global Warming -- 7 - Modeling Convection -- 8 - Convection in a Fish Tank -- 9 - Celebrate With Satellites -- 10 -Taming Energy -- 11 - The Science Behind Nanosunscreens -- 12 - Juan's Dilemma -- 13 - A Virtual Circuits Lab -- 14 - Measuring Wavelength With a Ruler -- 15 - Shedding Light on the Inverse-Square Law -- 16 - A 50-Cent Analytical Spectroscope -- 17 - Fueling the Car of Tomorrow -- 18 - The Interdisciplinary Study of Biofuels -- 19 - A Life-Cycle Assessment of Biofuels -- 20 - Fall Colors, Temperature, adn Day Length -- 21 - A Useful Laboratory Tool -- 22 - Fire and Ecological Disturbance -- 23 - A Cooperative Classroom Investigation of Climate Change -- 24 - Climate Physics -- 25 - Seeing the Carbon Cycle -- 26 - How Much Carbon Is In the Forest? -- 27 - Thinking Like an Ecologist -- 28 - Teaching About Energy -- 29 - Solar Radiation-Harnessing the Power -- 30 - Solar Panels and Alternative Energy In the Eighth-Grade Classroom -- 31 - Windmills are Going Around Again -- 32 - A First Energy Grant -- Part 2: Student Projects and Case Studies -- 33 - Doing Science With PBS -- 34 - Students For Sustainable Energy -- 35 - The State High Biodiesel Project -- 36 - The Sidewalk Project -- 37 - Asking Authentic Questions With Tangible Consequences -- 38 - The Quiet Skies Project -- Part 3: Issues in Depth -- 39 - In the Hot Seat -- 40 - Connect the Spheres With the Coal Cycle -- 41 - Petroleum and the Environment -- 42 - An Earth-System Approach to Understanding the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill -- 43- Converting Sunlight Into Other Forms of Energy -- 44 - Everybody Talks About it.

45 - School Greenhouse Design Tips -- 46 - Circuit Safety -- 47 - Battery Safety Basics -- 48 - Sun Safety -- Index.