Pathfinders
Electricity Generation
These research suggestions and websites might help you with your research on how electricity is generated.
Subject headings, keywords
electricity, electrical generation, energy, power.
Dewey Numbers
333.79, 333.82, 531, 553, 536, 537, 600, 609, 662.
Reference:
Britannica Encyclopedias, World Book Encyclopedias, Oxford Junior encyclopedias, Encarta,
Information file, Science encyclopaedias.
On-line databases and websites
Britannica Online http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/
login on the left side of the page under the EPIC heading
login - darfieldhs, password: 22darfieldhs.
Scroll down to blue highlighted links - 'Britannica online school edition K-12'
or the 'Discovering Collection' (also biographies and science plus more)
Choose either Primary, Secondary or High School levels or 'search all levels'These websites have information on electrical generation.
http://powerscorecard.org/technologies.cfm electricity generating technologies
http://www.edfenergy.com/powerup/keystage3/out/page4.html diagrams
http://www.nzgeothermal.org.nz/geothermal_energy/electricity_generation.asp geothermal
http://www.genesisenergy.co.nz/genesis/ how power is generated
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation