Home Energy Quiz

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In this activity, students take a Home Energy Quiz to identify improvements that could make their homes more energy-efficient.

Analyze data using tools, technologies, and/or models (e.g., computational, mathematical) in order to make valid and reliable scientific claims or determine an optimal design solution.

Ask questions to clarify and/or refine a model, an explanation, or an engineering problem.

Ask questions to clarify and refine a model, an explanation, or an engineering problem.

Optimize performance of a design by prioritizing criteria, making tradeoffs, testing, revising, and re-testing.

Apply scientific reasoning, theory, and/or models to link evidence to the claims to assess the extent to which the reasoning and data support the explanation or conclusion.

Compare and evaluate competing arguments or design solutions in light of currently accepted explanations, new evidence, limitations (e.g., trade-offs), constraints, and ethical issues.

Human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth’s mean surface temperature (global warming). Reducing the level of climate change and reducing human vulnerability to whatever climate changes do occur depend on the understanding of climate science, engineering capabilities, and other kinds of knowledge, such as understanding of human behavior and on applying that knowledge wisely in decisions and activities.

Scientists and engineers can make major contributions by developing technologies that produce less pollution and waste and that preclude ecosystem degradation.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed—it only moves between one place and another place, between objects and/or fields, or between systems.

Cause and effect relationships may be used to predict phenomena in natural or designed systems.

Energy may take different forms (e.g. energy in fields, thermal energy, energy of motion).

Small changes in one part of a system might cause large changes in another part.

Patterns of performance of designed systems can be analyzed and interpreted to reengineer and improve the system.