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This is a hub for educational materials related to alternative energy sources and biofuels. It is an attempt to gather STEM activity write-ups to be used within the BioFuels network and other educational organizations.

Welcome to the BioFuels Wiki
There are five main questions we are asking through roughly twelve activities (although there are several variations of many of the activities).

Questions
Each of the activities below is designed to help start a discussion around at least one of these questions. The activities are grouped by the questions the bring up. For a list of all activities related to each of these questions, follow the link.


 * 1) What are alternative energy sources?
 * 2) Why is using alternative energy sources for fuel important for the environment?
 * 3) Why are all alternative energy sources not equally good?
 * 4) Why is finding non-food source items with which to create alternative energy important?
 * 5) Why are non-food source alternative energy sources hard for scientists to develop?

Activities

 * 1) Construct a Plant Cell
 * 2) Refining Process
 * 3) Sugar Testing
 * 4) Alternative Energy Sources
 * 5) Energy Transfer
 * 6) Plants: Perennials and Annuals
 * 7) Be a Scientist/Engineer
 * 8) Carbon Dioxide
 * 9) Look at Cells
 * 10) Make a Molecule
 * 11) Does it Contain Corn?
 * 12) Road Trip Challenge