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Communicating with Graphics
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Primary: Laboratory
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Operation
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Infinite Potential
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Mission:
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Mission 5: Energy Security
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Print Page
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104
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Personal and social issues | Humans and the environment | Science as inquiry | Science process skills | Analyzing data | Communicating | Science
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5 | 6 | 7 | 8
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Keywords
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diagram, illustration, chart, data, communicate, energy, supply, demand, United States, U.S., US, spreadsheet software, graphic, analyze, production, consumption, energy resource account, bar graph, reduce, transportation
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Duration
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00:45:00 (HH:MM:SS)
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Teachers | Elementary Grades | Junior High
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Created On
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4/22/2009
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From: Infinite Potential Mission 5: Energy Security (pp: 104) |
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Communicating with Graphics In this activity, you will have the opportunity to examine a chart that communicates energy supply and demand in the United States. From this chart, you will learn more about the United States' energy sources and sectors. You will import this data into spreadsheet software, and use it to create additional graphics to analyze our nation’s energy production and consumption. |
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Creating an energy secure environment within a deep space module is a concern for Constance Adams. Working with engineers, scientists, and fellow architects, Constance studies a module’s energy budget detailing both energy production and consumption. Constance uses and creates diagrams, illustrations, and charts to share her thoughts and data with architects and scientists. In this activity, you will have the opportunity to examine a chart that communicates energy supply and demand in the United States. From this chart, you will learn more about the United States’ energy sources and sectors. You will import this data into spreadsheet software, and use it to create additional graphics to analyze our nation’s energy production and consumption.
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- Lab 4 Data Sheet
- computer with Internet access and spreadsheet software installed
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| Lab Prep |
- Download the Lab 4 Data Sheet. The first activity on the sheet will help you become familiar with the tools and graphics capabilities of spreadsheet software.
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| Make Observations |
- Look at the graphic on the data sheet. What is the logic for composing this graphic as a stack of arrows that go from left to right? What do the arrow tails represent? What do the arrowheads represent?
- Which energy resource accounts for most of our domestic energy production? Which energy resource accounts for most of our imports?
- Using spreadsheet software, create a chart and associated bar graph that displays the energy supply sources in the United States.
- Which energy source would be easiest to reduce? Explain.
- Using spreadsheet software, create a chart and associated bar graph that displays the ways in which the energy supplies in the United States are used.
- Which of these uses would be easiest to reduce? Explain.
- What percentage of United States’ energy consumption is met through the burning of fossil fuels?
- What percentage of United States’ energy consumption is used for transportation?
- How effective was displaying your data in a bar graph? Can you present the data with a more effective graphic style? Why would this new style be more effective?
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How will going green affect a community’s energy supply and use? | |
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