Positives

• This article is concise and includes a great infographic of the components in wave energy technology.
• This article addresses a climate solution that is not widely discussed.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with kinetic and potential energy.
• Students may have to enlarge the graphic to see the details.

Differentiation

• This article could supplement a lesson in which students evaluate wave energy's effectiveness at reducing human impacts on natural systems.
• Students could use the article to evaluate the U.S. government's effectiveness at addressing climate change.
• This article could be used for a class discussion on how wave energy fits into a larger discourse about renewable energy and to what extent wave energy should be considered in mitigation discussions.
  
• For a language arts class, this article gives students an opportunity to determine the central ideas or conclusions of a scientific text.