The query was looking for resources on energy (renewable and non-renewable) for late elementary age students. Here’s some things I dug up that somewhat vary in age. The world is complicated and topics are interconnected; I firmly believe that children can understand and appreciate that.
Chelsea Green - one of the best publishers for practical solarpunk books. Interesting texts on natural building techniques, in addition to lots of DIY, gardening, and homesteading.
Wind Exchange - this is an awesome website full of maps from the US gov’t showing where all wind energy is installed, and also the potential wind energy that could be installed. Includes info on utility scale wind power and local distributed projects as well.
Kidwind - multiple projects, if you dig into the PDFs it covers the science well
Energy flow charts - these are FANTASTIC!! Broken down to the state level for those in the US; also covers many many countries. Comparisons are very eye-opening. As a visual learner, these charts helped me get a much better grasp for where we are, in terms of energy consumption, than paragraphs of words. Compare any US state with Haiti to fully understand greater ecological, economic, and infrastructure issues. (This is not to pick on Haiti, you can just see the fully devastating effects of colonialism there, and it’s only about 700 miles from Florida.)
On this day, 29 June 1916, women gun workers at the Dion munitions factory in France during World War I downed tools in protest at an increase in workload along with a cut in the piece rate pay. Around 4000 women were employed at the plant, working 10 ½ and 11 hour shifts. All 110 women in the gun shop took part in the strike. Initially their foreman was dismissive, telling them “The Dion factory never yields to a strike as a matter of principle… It has never yielded to men and it is even less likely to yield to women”. Despite the company firing some of the workers, they kept up their strike for 11 days until a government arbitration panel – desperate to avoid disruption to arms production – ruled partially in favour of the workers. Although workloads were increased, the pay cuts were stopped and bosses agreed to rehire the sacked women. The following year, there were to be many more strikes of women munitions workers in the country.
Pictured: French munitions workers, 1916
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