Teaching Tips

• This activity provides good scientific background materials, visuals, and data (with graphs) but needs significant instructional support before it can be used in the classroom.
• It is part of a larger informational website on Energy.

About the Content

• The written text and graphic focus on energy production regionally and worldwide, and yearly data between the years 1971-2018 can be compared.
• Students can use the dropdown menu to look at worldwide data or a particular country, and this pie chart illustrates the percentage of each energy source used in that particular country.
• A line graph also shows the amount of energy production over time.
• Data is up to date and from a credible source.
• Comments from expert scientist: The activity provided accurate scientific information and the data provided is credible.

About the Pedagogy

• This is an easy to use research tool with some interactive components.
• There is no instructional strategies provided. The teacher will need to create a lesson plan for individual or team research concerning global or regional energy production.

• This resource engages students in using scientific data.
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Technical Details/Ease of Use

• Graphs do not load on all web browsers, but will work on Chrome, check before use.