This morning the teachers in UE1 were asked to discuss in small groups what they thought were the specific purposes of the rules of energy theatre now that they had a deeper understanding of energy than they had on the first day when they read the rules. Table 4 (Wendy, Kathy, and Adria) were discussing the importance of having one person represent one chunk of energy and having the same person transform through the different forms of energy.
Kathy mentioned that ET demonstrates the fact that you only have a finite amount of energy and with each different scenario that we represent we see that thermal energy is always emitted. At this point Wendy claims that ET basically explains global warming. Kathy thought that ET stressed the idea that it's important that we find alternative ways to use kinetic and other forms of energy that give off the least amount of thermal energy. They all agreed that these ideas are really important to expose kids to because their generation is going to be faced with difficult decisions about how to best deal with global warming.
I thought this was an interesting purpose/benefit of ET that may not have been thought of before!
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