Energy Transfer and the Building Envelope

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Energy Transfer and the Building Envelope

• Department of Energy
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Oak Ridge, Tennessee
• Energy Division
• Buildings Technology Center
• Kerry Hake

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Energy Transfer

• Agencies
• Goals
• History
• Teachers
• Development
• Community
• Contacts

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Energy Transfer Agencies

• DOE - Department of Energy
• Cindy Musick
• ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• OUSE - Office of University and Science
  Education
• Linda Cain and Barbara Summers
• ED - Energy Division
• BTC - Buildings Technology Center
• Jeff Christian and Kerry Hake
• ARC - Appalachian Regional Commission
• Bill Brown

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Energy Transfer Project Goals

• Provide teachers with an effective learning tool
• Standards-based and Internet-based
• Establish and foster a learning community
• Module-based with teachers and students

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Energy Transfer Module Goals

• Transmit concepts of thermal transfer to 6-8th
  grade students.
• Conduction, Convection, Reflection
• Engage students in the scientific process
• Utilization of actual data by students
  teachers
• Interaction with practicing scientists

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Energy Transfer History

• Testing Walls and roofs
• Education Workshops, Multimedia, Web
• Collaboration ARC
• WWW Event Straw Bale Wall Construction
• http//www.ornl.gov/roofswalls/strawbalewall

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Energy Transfer Teachers

• ARC Summer Institute
• 26 teachers
• 13 states
• Mixture of disciplines
• Middle school
• High school

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Energy Transfer Development

• Two weeks of idea generation
• Multiple teachers at ORNL
• One week of module development
• Group of 5 core teachers at ORNL
• Two months of refinement before piloting
• Develop constructivist educational format
• Market / advertise / solicit participation

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Energy Transfer Development

• Instructional Leader (teacher)
• Curriculum oversight
• Coordinate development, deployment, and feedback
• Technical Leader (researcher)
• Technology oversight
• Facilitate use of appropriate technology

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Energy Transfer Community

• Maintain a core of ARC teachers
• Expand participation through teacher networking
• Face-to-face meetings
• Video conferencing
• Chat room server
• Electronic notebook

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Energy Transfer

• Agencies
• Goals
• History
• Teachers
• Development
• Community
• Contacts

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Contacts

• DOE - Office of Science Education
• Cindy Musick - cindy.musick_at_oer.doe.gov
• ORNL - Office of University and Science
  Education
• Linda Cain - 9lc_at_ornl.gov
• Barbara Summers - qgz_at_ornl.gov
• ORNL - Buildings Technology Center
• Jeff Christian - jef_at_ornl.gov
• Kerry Hake - khk_at_ornl.gov
• ARC - ORNL
• Bill Brown - bcbrown_at_earthlink.net

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Wall Testing Equipment
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Roof Testing Equipment
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Roof Testing Equipment
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WWW Event