EDUCATION RESOURCES

BEES PLEASE

Grade level: K-2
Curriculum areas: Science, Math, English Language Arts; Extension: Art
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 K-2 science topics including: plants and their life cycles and habitats.

BIODIVERSITY STUDY

Grade level: K-5
Curriculum areas: Science, Math, English Language Arts, Sustainability
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

Grade level: K-2
Curriculum areas: Science, English Language Arts
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 behaviors over time.

POWER OF THE SUN

Grade level: 3-8
Curriculum areas: Science
Category: Renewable Energy

Power of the Sun is a set of 7 lessons designed to form half a term's work including a visit to your nearby community solar farm. It covers Grade 3-5 science topics including: electricity and circuits, conductors and insulators, renewable energy, the sun, light and shadow.

Renewable Energy Around the World

Grade level: 3-8
Curriculum areas: Science, Social Studies, Math
Category: Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy around the World is a set of 4 lessons designed to form half a term's work. It covers Grade 3-8 geography topics including: mapping, comparing countries, renewable energy.

SUNLIGHT & WEATHER DIARY

Grade level: K-3
Curriculum areas: Science, Social Studies, Math
Category: Renewable Energy

The Sunlight and Weather Diary provides an opportunity for students to think about how many hours of sunlight we have in an average week or month.

ELECTRICITY EXPERIMENTS

Grade level: 3-5
Curriculum areas: Science
Category: Renewable Energy

RENEWABLE ENERGY BINGO

Grade level: 3-5
Curriculum areas: English Language Arts
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.

CAPTURING SOLAR ENERGY

Grade level: 9-12
Curriculum areas: Science, Math
Category: Renewable Energy

This lesson discusses how much power the sun provides to Earth, and how we can determine how much solar energy is available to us.

BIODIVERSITY STUDY (HIGH SCHOOL)

Grade level: 9-12
Curriculum areas: Science, Math
Category: Biodiversity

This activity will establish and survey species along a transect line, first at school and then at the solar farm, which is an excellent way to get a representative sample of the flora and fauna in the community.

STORY OF ENERGY

Grade level: 9-12
Curriculum areas: Science, Social Studies
Category: Renewable Energy

This lesson begins to piece together the key components of our energy story and asks the question of how this story could be improved.