Positives

• Students will benefit from the solution-focused and realistic nature of this article.
• This article is concise and easy to understand.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students need to understand how climate change is a critical problem for the human race.
• Students should be familiar with green energy technologies.
  

Differentiation

• Teachers using the article in a Zoom lesson can assign breakout rooms to discuss each category of the electricity sector.
• To assess prior knowledge, the teacher can ask students to consider their electricity use throughout a typical day before reading the article.
• This article can support a classroom discussion on what political, social, and economic barriers are slowing down the process of green energy implementation in the United States.
• Students can use this article for a research project on electricity production in the United States.