Putting solar panels on rooftops and arrays is a labor-intensive process. You need people to design and manufacture the panels. Then people to market the panels to homes, businesses, and utilities. Then people to come and install them.
It all adds up to a lot of jobs. Even though solar power still provides just a fraction of America’s electricity — about 1.3 percent — the industry now employs more than 260,000 people, according to a new survey from the nonprofit Solar Foundation. And it’s growing fast: Last year, the solar industry accounted for one of every 50 new jobs nationwide.
Preparing for the future? The jobs of tomorrow may not be what you expect. What blows my mind is that solar now employs more than the natural gas industry.
Use conditional formatting in Google Sheets to analyze data and grades. After a formative assessment, you can use a Google Sheet to analyze student performance on individual items on the assessment. This will allow you to spot trends in the students answers, to which you’ll need to investigate what students answered the way they did…
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Sticky Notes, an app for Chrome, brings sticky notes to your desktop. Once installed and then opened, you are greeted with the with the launcher screen. Clicking on the plus at the bottom left creates your first sticky note. From there, you can create new notes with the plus, or delete notes with the trashcan. The…
This is part 3 of 13 things to do before the first day of school. For your students, take the guesswork out of finding your class online by designating your classroom’s default home page. This should be the main site for your classroom to post news, links, assignments, etc. It helps the students know that…
