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LFS Lesson Plan
Unit EQ: How can technologies impacts be both good and bad?
LEQ: How is energy distributed, and how does the power grid function?
Activating Strategies:
Handout The Grid video worksheet for students to fill out during the video.
Acceleration/Previewing/Vocabulary:
Power grid, blackout, load, Power plant, Transmission Lines, N-1 Scenario, Energy Management systems, AC power, DC power, Voltage, Economies of scale, Intertie, Rolling blackout, Digital switching, superconducting

Teaching Strategies and Distributed Guided Practice/Summarizing Prompts:
  • Play power grid video
  • Comments on main points of the video
Summarizing Strategies:
  • Review some of the terms and ideas from the video
    • What is the power grid
    • How does it work
    • It needs to stay balanced Energy in must equal energy out
  • Ask students what questions they missed during the video and review the answers
Homework:
ยท Fill out any remaining questions they missed during the video.