Energy Awareness Month

What are your students doing to celebrate Energy Awareness Month? Each year, the U.S. Department of Energy designates October as Energy Awareness Month. During the month, many schools undertake energy…

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Power Outage Blog

Power outage blog

Barry Scott, NEED State Program Director of California, wrote a really great blog about living without power with the California power shut offs to keep people safe during the fires.…

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World Book Day

Open book on top of a pile of books

An article written by Barb Lazar Director of the Ford Library, Bosque School, Albuquerque, NM NEED Teacher Advisory Board I am an energy-nerd-middle-school-teacher-librarian, and there are times when I come…

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Hurricane Science

NOAA hurricane atmospheric view

Resources to teach and learn about hurricanes NEED’s Weather and Hurricane Articles and Activities National Hurricane Center National Weather Service NASA’s Hurricane Resource Page NASA’s Multimedia Video Page NASA –…

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Earth Science Week

Earth Science diagram

October 14-20, 2012 Take part in an amazing week celebrating the natural world and geosciences. The theme of ESW 2012, “Discovering Careers in the Earth Sciences,” aims to engage young…

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