Tags: energy project, Ks3, Plaza
Tags: energy project, Ks3, Plaza
Tags: energy project, Ks3, Plaza
Tags: Energy Project, KS3, Plaza
You will have an understanding of the Greenhouse effect and global warming.
You are the Science reporter for the NNL NEWS team and it is your job to give the public and explanation as to why the world is experiencing these extreme weathers.
HELP Pages 1 - 11 of your energy project book.
Complete an activity at the beginning of each lesson.
Pages 13 - 19
Produce as a group, in pairs or on your own a NEWS Presentation about Global Warming. Use pages 1 -11 of your energy project book for help.
Slide 1 = Greenhouse effect
Slide 2 = Greenhouse Gases
Slide 3 = Global Warming
Slide 4 = The Effects of global warming
Slide 5 = What is at risk.
Slide 6 = What can we do to slow it down.
You will have your news report recorded and Published as a video pod cast.
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Express their your views about renewable and non-renewable energies
Key Words
Coal-burning power station, wind turbine, wind farm
Resources
Red and Amber Page 36
Green Page 46
Recap coal burning power station and a wind farm are before: use Information cards
Red and Amber Some people feel very strongly about the pollution caused by coal power stations, and that other people do not like wind farms because they think they spoil the landscape. Other people support coal power stations because they produce cheap power, while others like wind power because it is clean.
express your own views on the sheet and circled a face in each case, count up the 'votes’ and discuss why the children expressed particular views.
EXTENSION
In your group you could complete a poll/survey to find the class’s favourite renewable. You could plot the data on a graph or in columns, using smiley faces.
Green
Why new wind farms are being built, but not new coal-fired power stations?
Fill in the activity card on page 46, with as much detail as possible.
EXTENSION
You can make large speech bubbles of the groups opinions, to put on display.
Red and Amber Discuss where each person in the group the different opinions in the group.
Green Discuss where each person in the group the different opinions in the group.
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Understand why renewable energy projects need to be located in certain places
Key Words
Coal-burning power station, wind turbine, solar panels
Resources
Red and Amber Page 35
Green Page 45
Red With help from your group teacher complete worksheet on page 32
Amber Complete worksheet on page 32
Green For each renewable energy source write down how it works, this should be a recap of your last few lessons.
Red and Amber Talk about the picture on page 35; identify the various elements in the drawing, such as the town, the hills, the sea and the forest.
In your group discuss the power lines leading from the power station to the town: what are they for? Why are they dangerous? Point out that cables can also be routed underground.
EXTENSION you can add more detail to the picture, or work on
a large version of it, adding pictures of renewable energy projects located in the most appropriate places.
Green
Using the information cards, briefly run through how each of the renewables generates electricity.
For each renewable energy answer this question ‘What is the most important factor in choosing where to site the
project?’
You can now complete the activity on page 45 of your energy project book, in pairs discussing the issues of where you should place each renewable energy.
EXTENSION
You can draw your own landscape with the six renewables in place, each labeled.
Red and Amber Discuss where each person in the group has placed the each type of renewable energy project and why.
Green Discuss where each person in the group has placed the each type of renewable energy project and why.
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Understand tidal and wave energy and how it works
Key Words
Tidal energy, tidal barrage, dam, turbines, pressure, force, gravity, renewable, wave machine, acetate,
Resources
TIDAL = Two 2-litre plastic drinks bottles, strong cloth tape, a pair of sharp compasses
WAVE = Plastic tubes or wooden dowelling, OHT, acetate, elastic bands, plasticine, scissors
Recap what students can remember from lesson 2 about what they found out about Tidal and Wave Power. If you are struggling to remember look at the information pages in your energy project book.
Teacher will demonstrate how the tidal and wave power models work.
TIDAL
The greater mass (or weight) of water in the full bottle exerts a greater downward force (due to gravity) and so there is increased pressure on the water, pushing it out of the small hole with more force.
Red Draw a diagram of the two demonstrations that you saw.
Amber Draw a diagram of the two demonstrations that you saw and label it
Green Draw a diagram of the two demonstrations that you saw and try to explain how each model works, (you may need help from your group teacher.)
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understand hydroelectric energy and how a water turbine works.
Key Words
Hydro, hydroelectric energy, water turbine, blades
Resources
Cardboard tubes, long thin rods, scissors, stapler
Recap what students can remember from lesson 2 about what they found out about Water Turbines. If you are struggling to remember look at the Tidal Power information page in your energy project book.
Red with help from your teacher carry out the practical on page 33 of your energy project book.
Amber Carry out the practical on page 33 of your energy project book.
Green Carry out the practical on page 41 of your energy project book.
Red as a group write down 3 improvements that you can make to your water turbine.
Amber as a group discuss 3 improvements that you can make to your water turbines and on your own write these down on page 34a
Green complete step 5 on page 42 of your energy project book.
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Understand what solar power is and how active solar panels work.
Key Words Solar power, solar panel, electricity, heating, light.
Resources 3 empty CD cases, black paper, and white paper.
Recap what students can remember from lesson 2 about what they found out about Solar Power. If you are struggling to remember look at the solar Power information page in your energy project book.
Red with help from your teacher carry out the practical on page 33 of your energy project book.
Amber Carry out the practical on page 33 of your energy project book.
Green Carry out the practical on page 41 of your energy project book.
Red as a group write down what you found out through your investigation and fill in page 34 of your energy project book.
Amber as a group discuss what you found out through your investigation and on your own fill in page 34 of your energy project book.
Green Complete the worksheet on page 41 of your energy project book.
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Understand how a wind turbine works, by making a simple model.
Key Words Wind turbine, wind farm, pinwheel, blades, force, spin
Resources
RED and AMBER = Bendy plastic straws, paper fasteners, scissors, hole punch
GREEN = scissors, a pencil, a ruler, a piece of sticky tape, a long paper fastener, 2 large card wheels, 4 small paper clips, a range of card materials to test (e.g. paper, thin card, thick card, rigid plastic, thick aluminum ‘take-away’
foil), pupil record card to record results.
Recap on what pupils found out in lesson 2 about wind power
Red Make the model wind turbine using page 33 of you energy project book, with help from your group teacher
Amber Make the of the wind turbine using the instructions on page 33 of you energy project book.
Green Make the model of the wind turbine using the instructions on page 40 of your energy project book.
In your groups Judge who made the best wind turbine model.
This student compared three different sizes of her windmill, but which one was the best?
This student thought that going massive would be really good, but the material he was using wasn't up to it. Make sure you think about the material that you are using before you make your's
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Learn the names of different Renewable energy sources.
Team Work
Independent learner
Ability to work to deadlines
Key Words Biomass, solar panel, dam, sea snake, tidal energy
Discuss with your group Teacher about how we need to find new ways to make electricity owing to:
a) fossil fuels running out;
b) pollution.
We are now producing some of our electricity, heating and hot water using forms of energy that do not run out, provided by sources such as the weather, plants and the sun.
Red Read through with your group teacher pages 25 - 30 of you energy project booklet
Amber Read through on your own pages 25 - 30 of you energy project booklet
Green Read pages 23 - 38 of you energy project booklet
Using the information choose 1 renewable energy source and create a factoids (small chuncks, snips of information, diagrams and pictures)about your chosen energy.
As a group you need to put all your factiods together to create a wall display about Renewable energy resources.
Amber group
Green Group
Red Group
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To you understand what non-renewable energy is, and become aware of its main limitations.
Key Words Renewable energy, non-renewable energy, power station, electricity, coal, pollution
Begin by discussing what electricity is used for and why it is so important.
Electricity has to be made and can be made in lots of different ways; and most of the UK’s electricity is supplied by power stations, and that these are like factories that burn fuel (coal, oil and gas).
RED Read through with the teacher in your group the Information card Page 23
Amber Read independently the information on Page 23
GREEN can use the following Website to find out about Fossil Fuels. Fossil Fuels
Fossil fuel power stations use the fuel to heat water to make steam, like a giant kettle, and that the steam turns a big machine called a generator. The generator makes electricity as it spins very fast.
RED and AMBER Complete the worksheet on page 31 of your booklet.
Green Answer the following questions in full sentences.
1. What things need Electricity?
2. List fossil Fuels
3. Where does coal, oil and gas come from, and how much is used up each day?
4. What will happen to stocks of fossil fuels one day one day?
5. What are the 2 types of energy produced when we burn fossil fuels?
EXTENSION TASK (FOR ALL GROUPS)
Pupils can create a PowerPoint about all the different things that we use that need electricity.
Group recap about Fossil Fuels.
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