Careers in Energy
The Virginia Department of Education has added Energy as the 17th Career Cluster (2020). For students with an interest in energy and sustainability, have them check out these resources!
Careers in Energy Use this guide to explore careers as an entrepreneur:
- Exploring Careers in Energy - Coming Soon!
- Energy Career Profiles - Check out 12 People with Energy Careers
VIEW Energy Book Lists
Explore More VIEW Resources
- Kids Search - search over 300 careers!
- Career Search - search more than 900 careers!
- VIEW's School Search - find the best schools for becoming an entrepreneur
- What Are Your Choices? - Explore your options after high school
Energy-Related Games
- Watts of Trouble: Power up rides using renewable energy.
- Vegetable Harvest: Count and gather vegetables.
- Sector 21: Search for mysterious creatures hiding in sector 21.
- Nature Changer: Help animals find what they need to survive.
- Feed the Fidgits: Design a system to grow and harvest plants to feed the fidgets.
- Reeftown Rock Adventure: Go on an adventure to find underwater creatures and build your own ocean.
- Help Our Kelp: Help ripple keep the kelp forest clean.
- Food Farmer: Grow giant vegetables on Earth, Moon, and Mars.
- Creature Mobile: Use different creature powers to engineer a vehicle to outrace the Zachbots
- Go Green: Help Grover protect Earth using Oscar’s trash blaster.
- Aviva’s Eel-ectric Challenge: Help test Aviva’s electric eel-powered suit.
- Fidgit Power: Help Fidgitville by designing wind turbines that make electricity.
Energy-Related Learning Videos
- Exploring Energy Series
- Designing Future Cities - Alternative Energy
- Cooking Cookies with Solar Power
- Exploring Windmill Design
- Exploring Conductivity: Kid Circuits
- Electric Girl
- Experimenting with a Lemon Battery
- Biome Buddies
- The Product in Produce
- Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
- Climate Change, Past and Present
Other Energy Resources For Educators
- 17th Career Cluster VDOE
- Executive Order 43
- National Energy Education Network (NEEN)
- Virginia CEWD
- Podcast: People Powered
- Podcast: Energy Sense
- Energy Kids for Teachers
- Get into Energy Toolkit
- Secure Futures Educational Programs
- Solar Decathlon
- Teachers Department of Energy
- National Energy Education Development (NEED) educator resources
- New Hampshire Energy Education Project (NHEEP)
For Parents
For Students
- Energy Kids
- NEED Student Resources
- Switch on Clean Energy Coloring Book
- Switch on Clean Energy Coloring Book (Spanish Version)
- BioEnergy Tech Coloring Book
- BioEnergy Tech Coloring Book (Spanish Version)
- Student Educational Resources - STEM
