Materials List: Enough Energy? Play the Renew-a-Bead Game

Each group needs:

  • 1 paper bag containing 100 black and white beads, with black beads representing non-renewable energy resources and white beads representing renewable energy resources; the ratio of black to white beads varies by group

95 black beads + 5 white beads

90 black beads + 10 white beads

80 black beads + 20 white beads

70 black beads + 30 white beads

https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/cla_activity1_renewable