Provided by: ClimateScience |Published on: July 27, 2022
Lesson Plans Grades 9-12
Synopsis
This resource details the positives and negatives of hydropower and includes a teacher's guide, reading comprehension handout, and sources for additional research and learning.
The reading includes graphs, data, and infographics to help students understand how hydropower works and how it impacts the environment.
This resource has everything needed to utilize it as a handout, homework assignment, or classroom assignment.
The graphics included in the worksheet are informative and engaging, and the comprehension questions do a good job assessing student understanding of the text.
Additional Prerequisites
Consider distributing the worksheet digitally in order to reduce paper use.
Differentiation
This resource would work equally well in a science class that is learning about renewable energy sources or a language arts class that is working on nonfiction reading comprehension strategies.
This resource lends itself well to a jigsaw activity, where students focus their attention on one or two assigned questions and share their thinking with a partner or group.
As an optional extension activity, have students research the nearest source of hydropower.
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