Kid's
Energy World
PHOENIX
MECHANICAL
- Learning Center for energy basics, gas, electricity, "how stuff works"
and more!
- Learning Center for how to use
less energy!
- Learning Center for our environment, climate change, recycling, glaciers, the Earth, our atmosphere and more!
- Learning Center for various
Renewable Energy sources!
- Learning Center for solar heating
and electricity!
- Learning Center for Wind energy
and windmills!
- Learning Center for Water
and Hydro Power!
- The name says it all!
Games, puzzles, coloring pages, videos, projects and other neat stuff!
Welcome To
The Phoenix Mechanical
Kid's Energy Learning Center!
This special section of our website is designed just for kids!
Use the links at the right to explore diffent forms of energy!
Italicized words below will also link you to more
information.
Energy plays a large part in our lives every day.
There are many different kinds of energy, and they are used for different things.
Forms of energy include, but are not limited to: kinetic, light, thermal, gravitational, sound, electromagnetic energy and more
Examples of energy uses include: electricity, transportation, heating and cooling for your home or school, and more.
This website focuses mostly on the kind of energy used in your home: electricity, heating and cooling, as well as renewable energy
and things that affect our environment.
Where does the energy for our homes, schools and automobiles come from?
Most of our energy come from fossil fuels.
What are fossil fuels?
They were formed long ago in the days of the dinosaurs. We use fossil fuels in the form of oil, petroleum and coal. Oil and
petroleum are separated to form many other different
energy sources including gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, natural gas, propane, kerosene, and more.
Plastics, asphalt, waxes, ladies make-up and more are made from petroleum products. As you can see, fossil fuels play a very important part in our lives.
Just like the number of dinosaurs that roamed the Earth, fossil fuels are limited. When they are gone, ...they are gone!Scientist predict that if we do nothing to change our current use of fossil fuels, especially oil & petroleum, our lives will be changed forever. Making no changes to our current usage, we could run out of oil & petroleum by the year 2057.
What happens if we run out of oil and petroleum? Let's hope we never find out!
Planning ahead and using alternative energy sources
are very important. The more we learn about energy, the better decisions we can make!
Planning ahead and making changes in our energy use now, will make a big difference.
Energy Conservation will help your parents save money, and cut back on the fossil fuel sources that we use.
Conserving energy and making better alternative energy choices, will help make sure we have plenty of fossil fuels left in the
future for other uses that we will need, like plastics.
Look around your home. Could you imagine what it would be like with
no plastics?
Another reason to reduce our fossil fuel usage is pollution.
Pollution contaminates the air we breathe and the water we drink. It can even get into our food supplies.
Alternative Energy, also known as Renewable Energy, is quickly becoming a more common part of our energy supply.
Renewable energy
is an energy source that is usually free, and can be renewed. Fossil fuels can not be renewed, there are no more dinosaurs!
Renewable Energy comes from sources such as sunlight, wind and water.
You have probably heard the names, solar, wind and hydro
power.
Use the links to the right to explore these energy sources.
There is something for kids of all ages, information facts, short animated videos, movies, energy games and more!
Kids of today will play a very important part of our energy future.
You are the teachers of the future!
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and every time you come back!
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