1. 3. Small pieces of tape to hold
1. Lay paper longways
2. Fold a small lip (~4cm) up from the bottom
TEACHER NOTES below
Materials per student:
1 sheet of copy paper
Colored pencils- a variety of colors would be nice
Scissors
2 small pieces of tape (to hold the fold in place, as shown on the slide above). I gave each 4-some of students a longer piece of masking tape; told them to divide it (now it’s 2 pieces), divide again (4 pieces, so now each student has 1 piece); then each student divides THAT piece into 2 more; small pieces work fine
9 small paper cards. Teachers- you’ll need to precut these; they’re each about 9cm x 7cm (don’t have to be exact). Making 9 per student is roughly the equivalent of dividing a sheet of paper into 2 columns going both ways, then cutting on those lines (see last ppt slide). If that sounds to you like something you could have students do for themselves, I would advise not- it’s a mess. Just pre-cut them all for them; trust me- it’s worth it!
Beforehand:
Do yourself a huge favor and make one of these booklets yourself. It’ll help you explain it better to your students, and give you something you can hold up as an example (you’ll find yourself doing this constantly). I actually make a new one with each class I do this with, so I can show each step in progress. That eliminates almost all uncertainty, which for me is worth the extra trouble.
Also beforehand, insert some images from Google onto certain slides (#’s 2,4,5,6). See notes section on later slides for what images go where. (For copyright reasons I could not leave those included; sorry!)
Read the notes on later slides for more info.
4. Fold over in half

2. Effects of Energy Transfer
The methods of obtaining, transforming, and distributing energy,
…and their environmental consequences
This is the cover of the booklet, which we’re titling here. Change the wording, if you like.
Adding some clipart adds a nice touch to your presentation that students can also add to their booklet- a sun, tree, mineral glistening, etc… anything related that’s simple to draw.

3. Renewable Nonrenewable
Open up the booklet, and now we’ll name the front and back pockets, and color each a different color. Doing so makes it look nice, and also, as you’ll see on the next slide, gives us a way to color-code the little cards that we’ll be putting in the booklet.
All 5 renewable cards will sit in the front pocket and have a green band across the top, and all 4 non-renewable cards will sit in the back pocket and be orange.
Renewable
Nonrenewable

4. Coal Card One Title Drawing 3 facts-2 regular, 1 environmental
Coal is a sedimentary rock
Made from plants in swamps
Coal mining can destroy landscape and pollute water supplies
Insert a couple of easy-to-draw coal images. Here’s 1 source from google images-
I included 2 or 3 images near the bottom of this slide so students could choose which they would draw in that space in between the title and where the 3 facts are.
Go very slow on this first card; the method of titling, coloring the title, making a simple drawing, and writing 3 facts is a system that repeats the same way with the other 8 cards. Be painfully clear on this one; that’ll make things later so much easier for you and your students!
Where did the facts about coal come from that are on the card? We had a section on this in our textbooks, so we did some reading and digging. If you don’t have this in your textbook, you’ll have to get students this either printed in packets or get them in front of a computer.
There are 3 facts they need to write. The way we did it, the first 2 were “ordinary” facts, and the last fact is environmental, explaining how obtaining, transporting, or using this impacts our environment.
The reason we color a orange band across the top is because coal is Nonrenewable; notice the colors match.
After you’ve done this one, they’ll put the little card in the correct pocket (in this case, Nonrenewable). Then they’ll do 8 more cards- 1 for each kind of energy- using the same method shown here.

5. Nonrenewable coal petroleum Natural gas nuclear Title Drawing
When you get to this slide, students are ready to continue making their 3 remaining Nonrenewable cards (they’ve already made one for coal). Insert 2 or 3 good and easy-to-draw clipart images inside each box (use google images, searching through clipart). Leave this slide on your screen for about 10 minutes to give students time to move somewhat at their own pace.
What if your students protest and say they can’t draw? No big deal; they won’t be graded based on how good their drawings are. Just have them do the best they can.
When finished with this slide, each student will have 4 little Nonrenewable cards: coal, natural gas, petroleum, and nuclear. Each is titled, has a drawing, and 3 facts. The titles are also all colored orange across the top, so they match the title on the back pocket of our booklet. Ta-da.
Title
Drawing
3 facts-2 regular, 1 environmental
nuclear

6. Renewable solar geothermal hydro wind biomass Title Drawing
When you get to this slide, students are ready to make their 5 Renewable cards. Insert 2 or 3 good and easy-to-draw clipart images inside each box above. Leave this slide on your screen for students to work off of.
Doing 9 total cards might sound like a lot, so one way to shorten that would be to assign a class to do 2 of each kind (Non-Renewable & Renewable), or 3 of each. I had to do that when class periods were shortened, and I didn’t think they’d do it very well as homework. But I’m sure your students are not like that…
How’d the lesson go for you? I’d appreciate a comment on this page of my site. Thanks
biomass
Title
Drawing
3 facts-2 regular, 1 environmental