AZURE is an education-outreach partnership between Arizona’s electric utility companies, designed to educate Arizonans about Renewable Energy resources – those sources of energy which are inexhaustible because their use today does not diminish their availability tomorrow. On the Azure website you’ll find information and lessons related to renewable energy sources, solar energy, biomass, wind energy, hydropower, and geothermal energy: http://www.azureeducation.com/

Arizona Solar Center

Grades: 5-8

The US Department of Energy has made available an activities and teaching guide for demonstrating hydropower. Education standards are included. Click here to view the lesson plan.

TEP (Tucson Electric Power Company)

A range of middle school lesson plans at: http://www.tucsonsolarschools.com/

SRP (Salt River Project)

SRP is an Arizona Utility company that has developed an unbelievable renewable energy education program “Powering Our Future” in three modules: grades 4-6, grades 6-8, and the high school module. All modules include teacher lesson plan guides and student handouts. The grade 4-6 module includes an online interactive “journey” for students that ties in with the classroom materials: http://www.poweringourfuture.com/?Tid=4&Gid=1

APS (Arizona Power Supply)

APS has developed a renewable energy education program including vocabulary and Arizona state standards, posters, presentations (a set of power point slides or PDF pages on renewable energy sources, hydropower, solar, geothermal, wind, biomass, and biogas), and a fun “Renewable Energy Passport” workbook available for lower elementary students. A scavenger hunt using the graphic information contained in the posters and the Renewable Energy Sources presentation to encourage both individual and group participation. A Passport complete with answers is also available: http://www.aps.com/my_community/renewable/energy_4.html