For Students and Teachers
Here are links to EETD, Berkeley Lab and external resources for students and teachers interested in learning about energy efficiency and the environment.
Energy Education
Berkeley Lab's educational resource center. Information about summer internship and research programs for students and teachers, and other activities.
A simple definition of energy efficiency, who "does" efficiency, and how Berkeley Lab's energy efficiency research has affected you—and virtually everyone in America.
For Berkeley Lab staff and others in the Bay area, here is information on how you can share your scientific knowledge by volunteering in the schools.
This summit, held in early 2001, gave students a chance to design energy-efficient inventors, and see their designs built by engineers at Berkeley Lab.
A teacher's and student's guide to using the Home Energy Saver in classroom projects to audit the energy use of homes and school buildings and find ways to make them more energy-efficient.
Describes a project, with Laney College (Oakland, California), to develop an environmental control technology curriculum for advanced building operation and management.
Links to articles about the work of some EETD scientists who have made contributions to research in archaeology and paleontology.
Resources Outside Berkeley Lab
The Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC) is a student run organization that was established in 2005 at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business to harness the strengths of the university's students, faculty and research programs across the energy and natural resources sectors.
Every year, Berkeley Lab staff volunteer with other community members during the Albany-Berkeley-Emeryville Rebuilding Together April work weekend. Rebuilding Together renovates the homes of elderly and disabled residents. A special activity of Lab volunteers is the Energy Team, which adds energy- and water-saving measures to these homes.
This site unites a number of links to energy-related research and implementation programs at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The Energy and Resources Group (ERG) is an interdisciplinary academic unit of the University of California at Berkeley, conducting programs of graduate teaching and research that treat issues of energy, resources, development, human and biological diversity, environmental justice, governance, global climate change and new approaches to thinking about economics and consumption.
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) site features more than 100 pages of fun educational content for kids, parents, and teachers.
Lesson Plans and other information.
Cool The Earth is a ready-to-run program that educates K-8 students and their families about global warming and inspires them to take simple actions to reduce their carbon emissions.
A San Francisco Bay area network of students and teachers interested in the environment.
DOE's Education website. Resources for students and teachers, as well as training for homeowners and professionals.
The California Energy Commission's website for kids.
The National Energy Education Development Project promotes an energy conscious and educated society by creating effective networks of students, educators, business, government and community leaders to design and deliver objective, multi-sided energy education programs.
Learn about how to read an electric meter, how much energy costs, math conversions and formulas containing to energy use, how we can save energy, and much more.
