Created by Azrria, Tommy, Kaili, students at Merriam Park Elementary School in Merriam, Kansas

Title: Energyball 

Teacher and organizer: Gina Malashock

Grade: 5th 

Dream Theme: Energy

What is your art about? We created this energy ball and our dream is to create an energy source that allows you to save energy.

Created by Tybalt, Teague, Monkeith, Harris, students at Merriam Park Elementary School in Merriam, Kansas

Title: Gatorade 

Teacher and organizer: Gina Malashock

Grade: 5th 

Dream Theme: Energy

Materials & techniques used: Paint, glitter, and fabric

Created by Demetrius and James, students at Merriam Park Elementary School in Merriam, Kansas

Title: Objects in Space 

Teacher and organizer: Gina Malashock

Grade: 5th 

Dream Theme: Space

Materials & techniques used: Paint, glitter, and fabric

What is your art about? We chose this for what we think might be in space. And the red cross for health.

Created by 4th Graders at Lincoln Elementary School in Augusta, Kansas

Home Room Teacher: Mrs. Butler

Organizer and Art Teacher: Mrs. Jesser 

Title: Wind Power, Electric, and Solar

Dream Theme: Lincoln Pride World Wide / Conservation

Materials & Techniques Used: Acrylic on Canvas

Notes: Mrs. Wedling (our principal) is Electrifying

Participants: 21 Students

★By Girl Scout Troop 99 from Navarre, FL

Title – “Love is Earth’s Fuel”

Dream Theme – Energy

Organizer – Nancy Barrett

What is your group’s artwork about? “Our dream is to have LOVE fuel the Earth – Which is totally renewable!”

Participants: Kat Barrett, Haley Carroll, Kailey Haldeman, and Kim Smith

★By Max Riley,

a student at the

Neighborhood Art House

Erie, PA

Title – “stop our dependency on fossil fuel”

Dream Theme - Energy

Organizer - Deborah Sementelli

Submitted by The Altamont School in Birmingham, Alabama
Who was involved?Mary, Margaret H., Margaret L, Kathryn, Feras, Alex, Jackson, Maggie, Linda
Dream Theme - Energy
Materials Used - Cloth & Thread
Did you enjoy this project? Yes, the students learned how to make a pattern, cut and sew.

By Crystal Eggleston from Whitehall, New York
Name of Panel: "The Evolution of Energy"
Dream Theme: Energy
Did you enjoy this project? "Yes, very much. It inspired me to think about pictures in a different way."
What could the IFC do next? "Something involving fibers and creative sewing techniques (fabric post cards?)
Materials and Techniques Used:Quilting, Sewing, and Fabric
What is the story behind your panel?
"When I first thought of energy, I was taken back to my school days when we learned about energy in science class. I immediately thought of how our sources of energy have changed our time and thought of the most basic forms of energy. I chose the windmill as the images to be dominate in my panel. Everything else just fell into place!"

Panel submitted by Nancy Steinson, Marlina Steinson, and Keller Steinson from Roswell, GA. 
Title of panel: "From Pony Express to AutoRail", 
Dream Theme: Energy
Did you enjoy this project?Nancy - Gave me a chance to express my dream, for auto travel, yes, very much.Marlin - Yes! I enjoyed drawing my love for horses in my vision of the past and future.Keller - Yes, because I think it symbolizes all of our hopes for a better tomorrow.
What else could the IFC do?"What we could've and wished we did in the past."
Canvas and Acrylic Paints; 
What is the story behind your panel?"Since Marlina and I are both concerned about the environment, we decided to make a panel showing her love of horses and my dream of an autorail to go across country via our original Interstate Highway System."

Submitted by Annie Perry from Chicago, IL. 
Title of panel: "Freedom Machine"; 
Dream Theme: Energy 
Did you enjoy this project?"Yes - I created an edition of three panels, and like having a theme to base my design."
What could the next IFC project be?"Equillateral Triangles or Hexagons that wrap a circular structure or building that focuses on sustainability and energy. Encourage collaborators to use recycled or repurposed materials."
Materials and Techniques Used:Recycled fabrics - Cotton, Nylon, and Polyester (T-shirts that have been worn while riding a bike, clothing, and flags. 
Panel Statement:"Inspired from the Art Deco aesthetic of the 1920s and the life of Annie Londonderry who was the first woman to ride her bike around the world in 1894, this panel uses an angular design and a sunburst along with a simplified image of a bicycle and bike gears to inspire thought of the bicycle as a mode of leisurely travel and envision an idealized world in which more people use the bicycle as their primary mode of transportation.
In 1896, Susan B. Anthony told the New York World's Nellie Bly that bicycling had "done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world." In the late 1800's, the bycycle literally became a tool of personal and political freedom for women. A a woman in 2010 living in Chicago, I ride my bike to and from work and to run errands. I believe that the bicycle can become a Freedom Machine once again for our society, enabling us to become more energy independent and to rely on our own pedal power for short trips. With the bicycle and friendlier roads for pedestrians, bikers, and drivers our way of life has the possibility to radically change and improve both our individual and societal liberty."

By Madison Academy Senior Lauren Daley from Madison, Alabama
Title - Go Green
Theme - Conservation
Machine and Hand Quilting
"This Quilt panel was done as a class project. The fabrics were chosen to represent each of my fellow classmates and their interest and our collaborative concerns for our environment."

http://www.peakstudents.org
www.nrel.gov/learning/

www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/cleanenergy

www.crest.org

www.sustainableenergy.org/resources/facts_stats.htm

www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter17.html

www.energy.ca.gov/renewables/

www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/renewable/renewable.html

www.rredc.nrel.gov/kidzlinks.html

Horton Activity Book (You Can Be an ENERGY STAR) (1.23 MB) (Download PDF)

• Type: Activity Book
• Pages/Size: 6 pages, 81/2*11
• Language: English
• Date of Publication: December 2007
• Primary Audience: 3rd - 7th graders

Download an Earth Day Poster

The Energy Information Association’s Kids Energy Page is a great place for kids to learn.

Famous People Moment….
Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton was born in 1642 in England. His father had died two months before his birth. When Isaac was three his mother remarried, and Isaac remained with his grandmother. He was not interested in the family farm, so he was sent to Cambridge University to study. Isaac was born just a short time after the death of Galileo, one of the greatest scientists of all time. Galileo had proved that the planets revolve around the sun, not the earth as people thought at the time. Isaac Newton was very interested in the discoveries of Galileo and others. Isaac thought the universe worked like a machine and that a few simple laws governed it. Like Galileo, he realized that mathematics was the way to explain and prove those laws. Isaac Newton was one of the world’s great scientists because he took his ideas, and the ideas of earlier scientists, and combined them into a unified picture of how the universe works. To learn more about famous people go to the     Energy Information Association’s Energy Kids Page at     http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/

About the Alliance

Founded in 1985 in New Orleans, the Alliance conducts community education campaigns on energy issues, helps citizens and businesses become more energy efficient, and promotes sustainable energy policy solutions.

Global Warming

Every generation faces its historical challenge and is defined by how it responds. For all of humanity alive today that challenge is the crisis we call "Global Warming."  Thousands of studies have made it clear that Global Warming is not only real, but ultimately is the result of human activity through greenhouse gas emissions which come from burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas.  Most of the greenhouse gas pollution is produced by generating electricity or by vehicles.

Renewable Energy

Using renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and biofuels provides many benefits:

Provides power without burning fuels that produce extra greenhouse gases which cause Global Warming

Stimulates the economy through new industries focused on renewable and efficient energy technologies

Reduces our nation’s dependence on foreign sources of energy, keeping energy dollars at home

Stabilizes energy prices by diversifying energy sources (In 2005 ACEEE found that a modest 2-4% reduction in natural gas use could reduce natural gas prices 20% or more.)

Reduces the negative health, safety, and environmental impacts of using fossil fuels and nuclear energy, such as the pollution causing global warming, acid rain, increased incidence of asthma, cancer, mercury poisoning in children and radioactive waste.

www.fresh-energy.org

Fresh Energy's efforts focus on clean energy, transportation connections, global warming solutions, and energy justice. With expertise, strong alliances and an impressive track record in each of these important areas, we're able to maintain a long-range view while also nimbly responding to sudden threats and unexpected

 opportunities.

Issues 

Fresh Energy's efforts focus on clean energy, transportation connections, global warming solutions, and energy justice. With expertise, strong alliances, and an impressive track record in each of these important areas, we're able to maintain a long-range view while also nimbly responding to sudden threats and unexpected opportunities.

Clean Energy

Here in the Midwest, we're uniquely situated to take advantage of clean, renewable energy sources like wind, sun, and plant matter. More >>
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Transportation Connections

Fresh Energy delivers innovative transportation policies that will get us where we need to go without contributing to global warming or fueling our oil addiction. More >>http://fresh-energy.org/index.php/issues/45

Global Warming Solutions

The solutions to global warming - innovative technologies and tough laws and regulations that require firm deadlines for pollution reductions. More >>http://fresh-energy.org/index.php/issues/global-warming-solution

Energy Justice

Check out Flicker to see all of the Energy Dream Theme panels submitted.

The Dream Rocket team will be featuring non-profit organizations from around the world on the "Dream Theme" pages. Our hope is to help inspire participants everywhere to create panels with "Dream Themes" such as poverty, energy, space, health, peace, science/technology, conservation, and community. If your non-profit oganization falls within one of our "Dream Theme" categories listed and you would like to be represented on The Dream Rocket website,  please email
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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein