Geothermal: Classroom Activities

Activity	Concepts
Exploring the Transfer of Heat from Rocks	Rocks, heat, energy, specific heat, laboratory procedures, hypothesis making, geothermal heat.
Exploring the Transfer of Energy Between Two Fluids in a Binary Power Plant	Geothermal power plants, heat, heat exchangers, heat transfer, conduction, convection, fluids, boiling points, and specific heat capacity.
Exploring the Emissions from a Geothermal Plant and a Fossil Fuel Burning Plant	Hot water, steam, fossil fuels, combustion, particles, pollutants, lab procedures.
How Fan Shape Affects Turbine Efficiency	Turbines, engineering, experimentation, geothermal heat, water, energy, boiling point, steam pressure, rotation.