EDUCATION RESOURCES
Biodiversity Study
Year level: FS-KS2
Curriculum areas: Understanding the World, Science: Plants, All Living Things
Category: Biodiversity
This activity provides a series of worksheets to help you explore the wildlife or biodiversity of your school grounds or a community solar farm. You could run it as one hour long session or break it up into a longer project.
Bug hotel
Year level: FS-KS2
Curriculum areas: Understanding the World, Science: Plants, All Living Things
Category: Biodiversity
Students explore different insect habitats, explain how body parts help them survive, and build a bug hotel using the best materials for the habitat. Students then monitor the hotel and record insect activity and behaviours over time.
Bees Please
Year level: KS1-KS2
Curriculum areas: Science
Category: Biodiversity
Bees Please is a set of 8 lessons designed to form half a term's work including a visit to your nearby community solar farm. It covers KS1-KS2 science topics including: plants and their life cycles and habitats.
Solar farm introduction
Year level: FS-KS3
Curriculum areas: Science
Category: Renewable Energy
Students explore the meaning and importance of climate change and the different stages and careers involved in development of a solar farm. Students then complete an information leaflet with what they’ve learned.
Renewable energy around the world
Year level: KS1-KS2
Curriculum areas: Geography
Category: Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy around the World is a set of 11 lessons designed to form half a term's work. It covers KS1-KS2 geography topics including: Place Knowledge; Human and Physical Geography, Geographical Skills and fieldwork.
Solar farm debate
Year level: KS2
Curriculum areas: English, Geography
Category: Renewable Energy
Students explore the different viewpoints towards a local solar farm and renewable energy and their impact on the local community. They will spend time understanding different arguments and begin to frame a discussion/debate putting forward different views.
Power of the Sun
Year level: KS2
Curriculum areas: Geography, English
Category: Renewable Energy
Power of the Sun is a set of 11 lessons designed to form half a term's work including a visit to your nearby community solar farm.
Power your school
Year level: KS2
Curriculum areas: Geography, Science
Category: Renewable Energy
Students will map the school and local area, and predict where the best sites for solar panels might be. They will investigate the benefits of renewable energy, and create a poster to persuade the school governors into investing in renewable energy.
Electrical carbon footprint
Year level: KS2
Curriculum areas: Maths
Category: Renewable Energy
This session will allow students to explore their energy usage at home. They try to work out the amount of electricity they personally consume in a day at home. This will enable the pupils to begin to understand their carbon footprint and to explore the solar farm’s relevance to them and their own lives.
solar toy design
Year level: KS1-KS2
Curriculum areas: Design and Technology
Category: Renewable Energy
This session pupils will evaluate the design of solar toys, explore how they are made and begin to think about the kind of toy they would like to design themselves.
Solar car project
Year level: KS2-KS3
Curriculum areas: Design and Technology
Category: Renewable Energy
Using the Solar Car kits provided, students use engineering and design principles to construct and test a fully solar powered model car.
Solar power investigation
Year level: KS2
Curriculum areas: Science: Electricity, Investigations, Physics
Category: Renewable Energy
A one off investigation looking at how to increase the light intensity using natural light sources, then measure the output of a solar cell
sunlight and weather diary
Year level: KS1-KS2
Curriculum areas: Geography
Category: Renewable Energy
These sessions provides an opportunity for pupils to think about how many hours of sunlight we have in an average week or month. This pack provides you with two alternative ways for the pupils to collect information on the weather. This information will lead to children gaining a greater awareness of the weather and they will be able to use this information to understand how affective the solar park will be.
Renewable Energy Bingo
Year level: KS2
Curriculum areas: Geography
Category: Renewable Energy
This is a game of bingo – the children have different boards each. They listen to the teacher reading out the definitions below (in any order) and tick off the words that have been described. It aids vocabulary understanding, and covers KS2 Geography topic Human and Physical Geography.