1. ARE GREEN TECHNOLOGIES
September 1, 2013
Word Generation 15
P# 21-22
ARE GREEN TECHNOLOGIES
WORTH THE INVESTMENT?

2. Objective Students will be able to
Understand the following words and use them to enhance content knowledge in all subject areas.
Conserve
Renewable
Invest
Proceed
Maximize

3. Week 15 Words
Conserve
Renewable
Invest
Proceed
Maximize

4. Unit 2. 15 - Are Green Technologies worth the investment
Unit Are Green Technologies worth the investment? Can I have a volunteer to read the passage below?
Sekou is giving a report on renewable energy.
“Scientists say conserving energy is not enough. We need to switch to renewable sources of energy like wind, water, and sun. To maximize our efforts, people around the world must work together.”
Sekou proceeds. “Two scientists named Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi have a plan to meet all the world’s energy needs with renewable energy by Their plan would require governments to invest a total of 100 trillion dollars.”
“What about using renewable energy here at school?” asks Nadia.
“Good question!” says Sekou. “Let’s talk about wind!”

5. How were these words used in the reading? What do they mean?
Lets re-read the passage.
Can I have a volunteer to read the first paragraph?
Can I have someone read the next two sentences?
What does
Conserve
Renewable
Invest
Proceed
Maximize
Circle the word as we explain what the word means.

6. Let’s Set Up the Experiment
What is the Question?
What does this mean?
What is the Hypothesis?
What are the Materials for this experiment?
What is the Procedure for this experiment?
What is the Data for this experiment?
Analyze the data
Interpret the data

7. Data What is the Data for this experiment? Analyze the data
Interpret the data

8. Conclusion
Take 5 minutes to answer the following questions with your table.
Remember to use the data to answer the second question.
Is the hypothesis supported or not by the data?
What evidence supports your conclusion?
How would you make this a better experiment?
I will be around to see how you are doing with the questions.

9. Discussion Was the Hypothesis correct?
What was our evidence supports our conclusion?
How would you make this a better experiment?

10. Was this useful? 0 – I do not understand WHY we did this
Did this lesson help you to better understand our 5 words
Conserve
Renewable
Invest
Proceed
Maximize
Do you understand how to use these words in science now?
Rubric
0 – I do not understand WHY we did this
1 – I understand WHY we did this but I do not understand WHAT each
words means
2 – I understand WHY and WHAT each word means but I don’t
understand HOW to use them in science.
3 – I understand WHY, WHAT and HOW to use these words in
Science, but don’t understand WHEN I will use them in the real
world
4 – I understand WHY, WHAT, HOW and WHEN to use these words.