Additional Resources
ADVOCACY GROUPS & GENERAL INFORMATION
Alternative Energy News
Alternative energy news and information resources about renewable energy technologies. www.alternative-energy-news.info
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness
In 1991, a handful of citizens and a few companies in the Central Savannah River Area of South Carolina and Georgia banded together to form a nonprofit, grassroots organization that would be pro-nuclear and proud of it. We carry out educational programs to provide factual information about the benefits and risks of nuclear technologies and the Savannah River Site. www.c-n-t-a.com
Clean and Safe Energy Coalition (CASEnergy Coalition)
CASEnergy Coalition is an important voice in the public dialogue over current and future energy needs, particularly in addressing how nuclear power can contribute to America’s energy security and economic growth. Their mission is to support the increased use of nuclear energy to ensure an environmentally clean, safe, affordable and reliable supply of electricity. Nuclear power enhances America’s energy security and economic growth, helps attain cleaner air and improves the quality of life, health and economic well-being for all Americans. www.cleansafeenergy.org
Energy Providers Coalition for Education (EPCE)
The EPCE is a group of industry representatives that develops, sponsors, and promotes industry-driven, standardized, quality online learning programs to meet the workforce needs of the energy industry. www.epceonline.org
ENERGY EDUCATION TOOLS
Get Into Energy
Get Into Energy has been developed and is managed by the Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD). CWED is a non-profit organization with a mission of building alliances, processes, and tools to develop tomorrows energy workforce. This site is designed to build awareness among students, parents, teachers, guidance counselors, as well as working adults who are considering a career change. This site is open to anyone and includes: videos, career information, and information for students, parents, and educators. www.getintoenergy.com
The Harnessed Atom
Nuclear Energy and Electricity.
Senior High Honors Edition. (Field Test Version is currently available on limited basis).
This curriculum supplement is designed for high school juniors and seniors, especially those in honors and AP physics and chemistry. The classroom materials and experiments provide students with a clearer understanding of the physics of energy production, use, and conservation. It contains 10 interdisciplinary modules including energy and society, nuclear physics, atomic structure, reactor design and operation, and risk analysis. The curriculum, developed by the U.S. Department of Energy in collaboration with high school teachers across the country, emphasizes science curriculum standards, career opportunities, and big ideas of science to prepare high achieving students for college and careers. It contains experiments, lesson plans, pre- and post-tests, lectures, and field trip planning tools. For teacher inquiries, or for information on sponsoring the curriculum for teachers in your service area, contact xiquesp@saic.com
How to build a cloud chamber www.lns.cornell.edu/~adf4/cloud.html
National Energy Foundation (NEF)
The NEF is one of the nation’s leading K-12 energy education organizations. NEF’s mission is to cultivate and promote an energy literate society. NEF accomplishes this mission by developing attractive and engaging energy-related instructional materials for teachers and students, and by implementing those materials through a wide range of teacher and student programs.
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, NEF conducts projects across the U.S. Major energy education program initiatives are ongoing in New York, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Arizona, Utah, Texas, Nevada, Idaho, and various other locations. NEF programs and materials have won numerous awards over the Foundation’s 32 year history, and NEF instructional posters in particular are well known to science teachers throughout the country. NEF materials also included an energy education teacher guide series that spirals from Kindergarten to 12th grade. To contact the National Energy Foundation, call 1-800-616-8326 or visit NEF’s web site at www.nef1.org
The Need Project, Putting Energy Into Education
The mission of the National Energy Education Development Project is to promote 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. www.need.org
Periodic Chart Examples
This website documents, in great depth, a large collection of chemical elements and examples of their applications, common and uncommon. This website now contains the largest, most complete library of stock photographs of the elements and their applications available anywhere, as well as a large and growing collection of 3D images documenting hundreds of samples rotated through 360 degrees. http://theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable
Teachers’ Domain
This is a free, online digital media library of K-12 classroom resources developed by Boston public television stations WGBH. Resources draw from high-quality, trusted PBS shows such as the award-winning NOVA, ZOOM, Frontline and A Science Odyssey. Teachers’ Domain has over 1,800 standards- based resources that supplement textbook material covering all content areas. Additionally, Teachers’ Domain has developed online professional development courses that assist K-12 science teachers in effectively teaching inquiry-based science utilizing media from the collections. Courses can be licensed to educational service agencies, districts, schools, and universities for delivery to the K-12 teachers they serve. With over 315,000 registered users in over 174 countries around the world, Teachers’ Domain strives to strengthen teacher knowledge by providing innovative teaching methods that inspire students to learn. To access Teachers‘Domain resources and course information, please visit www.teachersdomain.org
GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS
The Department of Energy (DOE)
The DOE’s overarching mission is to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States; to promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission; and to ensure the environmental cleanup of the national nuclear weapons complex. The Department of Energy developed this public website to provide information on age-grade and subject matter resources for “energy” to help point students along the path of learning. www.Energy.gov
U.S. Department of Energy – Office of Nuclear Energy
The Office of Nuclear Energy promotes nuclear power as a resource capable of meeting the Nation’s energy, environmental and national security needs by resolving technical and regulatory barriers through research, development and demonstration. www.nuclear.energy.gov
The Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) has extended its communication and outreach efforts into the youth sector with a new website geared toward students in grades K-12. The new site features a mythical city known as Neutropolis and is accessible through the existing NE site www.nuclear.energy.gov/students/intro.html. “Neutropolis: The Nuclear Energy Zone for Students” provides factual information about nuclear energy and its many uses in separate tracks directed at beginner, intermediate, and advanced students. It also contains games and challenges appropriate to students of different ages, ideas for science projects, information about colleges that offer studies related to nuclear science, and details about DOE internships and career opportunities.
U.S. Department of Energy – Office of Science
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science is heir to the revolutionary work of Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, and E.O. Lawrence. The Office of Science makes history every day because we sustain their tradition of innovative basic scientific research that improves people’s lives. As testimony to the high quality and impact of the research DOE underwrites, more than 80 Nobel Laureates have been supported by or affiliated with the Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies. The Office of Science has a vital tradition of funding fundamental research that focuses on critical national challenges – and produces important scientific breakthroughs and contributes to our Nation’s well-being. Please click here to learn more about “Our Legacy.”
Energy Information Administration
Provides energy statistics from the US Government. www.eia.doe.gov
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
The NRC is the independent government agency that the responsibility to ensure adequate protection of public health and safety, promote the common defense and security, and protect the environment in the civilian use of nuclear materials in the United States. www.nrc.gov
NATIONAL LABORATORIES
Argonne National Lab (ANL) www.anl.gov
Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) www.bnl.gov
Idaho National Lab (INL) www.inl.gov
Idaho National Laboratory is a U.S. DOE laboratory operated by Battelle Energy Alliance working under the direction of the DOE’s Idaho Operations Office. The Laboratory is the lead laboratory for DOE’s Nuclear Energy research programs. INL also conducts research related to Energy and Environmental security, as well as National and Homeland Security. Emphases include the next-generation nuclear power reactors, nuclear materials, and nuclear waste management. Management and cleanup of legacy waste at the INL is carried out under separate contracts; cleanup information can be found at two web sites: https://idahocleanupproject.com/ and http://amwtp.inl.gov/
Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) www.lanl.gov
National Energy Technology Lab (NETL) www.netl.doe.gov
National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) www.nrel.gov
Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) www.ornl.gov
Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) www.pnl.govSandia National Lab (SNL) www.sandia.gov
NATIONAL SCIENCE EDUCATION STANDARDS
National Committee on Science Education Standards – www.nsta.org/publications/nses.aspx
Project 2061 Benchmarks – www.project2061.org
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics – Principle and Standards for School Mathmatics – http://standards.nctm.org/document/chapter3/index.htm
PROFESSIONAL & TRADE ASSOCIATIONS
Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD)
CEWD is for members only. It is a non-profit organization with a goal of increasing the number of diverse, qualified applicants who want to come to work for utilities. www.cewd.org.
Health Physics Society (HPS)
HPS is a scientific and professional organization whose members specialize in occupational and environmental radiation safety. The primary purpose of the Society is to support its members in the practice of their profession. The Society also promotes public information preparation and dissemination, education and training opportunities, and scientific information exchange through conferences and meetings and posting current news items and conducts a program to Accredit Radiation Instrumentation Calibration Laboratories. www.hps.org
The North American Young Generation in Nuclear (NA-YGN)
The North American Young Generation in Nuclear is a membership organization whose mission is to unite young professionals, age 36 and under or have worked 10 years or less in the nuclear industry, who believe in Nuclear Science and Technology and are working together throughout North America to share their passion for a field that is alive and kicking.
With more than 60 local chapters and 4,000 members, the organization offers programs and materials related to professional development, recruiting and retention, public advocacy as well as networking opportunities all across North America. To learn more about NA-YGN, please go to their website, www.na-ygn.org or e-mail na-ygn@na-ygn.org.
Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)
The NEI is the policy organization of the nuclear energy and technologies industry and participates in both the national and global policy-making process. NEI’s objective is to ensure the formation of policies that promote the beneficial uses of nuclear energy and technologies in the United States and around the world. www.nei.org
The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA)
NIA is the trade association and information body for the UK civil nuclear industry, representing over 130 companies. Our Objectives are to improve the commercial performance of the nuclear industry by assisting and supporting member companies to develop their businesses in the UK and overseas, and to improve understanding of nuclear energy and the climate of political and public opinion in which the industry works and develops. http://www.niauk.org
Women In Nuclear/Global (WiN Global)
Women In Nuclear Global (WiN Global) is an informal worldwide association of individuals, focusing on women, working professionally in various fields of nuclear energy and radiation applications. The members have a common commitment to provide information and communicate with the public. It is established as non-profit making.
WiN’s vision is to make the public, especially women, aware of the benefits of nuclear and radiation applications and of the safety that ensures protection of the public and the environment. www.win-global.org
