Teacher Preparation

All this talk about burning and saving energy makes us want to burn a bit of our own energy. Get your students outside, get them busy moving and get them using some of their own renewable energy!

This is a game best suited to a large defined area such as a basketball court, either inside or outside.

Preparation:

To play this game you will need to make large card. Each card will have one of the vocabulary words from the list below with the corresponding action word on the back. The cards will be held up and students need to complete the associated action, this will help students to become familiar with the vocabulary words.

The rules of the game are:

Choose a leader who will hold all the cards. When the leader calls out a word and shows the card, the students must complete the correct action. After a second, the card is flipped so those students who can’t recall the action can do it.

This is an elimination game. Players will be eliminated if;

1. They are the last person to complete the action last or
2. They are the first person to do the wrong action.

The decision of the leader is final – don’t worry, if you think it’s unfair, just ace it next time and get into the leader shoes.

The game continues until there is only one person left on the field. That person becomes the leader in the next game.

Sheet of words and actions

Words	Actions
Solar	Run to the north side of the playing field
Geothermal	Run to the south side of the playing field
Hydropower	Run to the west side of the playing field
Wind	Run to the east side of the playing field
Biomass	Run to the centre of the playing field
Coal	Sit down where you are
Fossil fuel	Star jumps
Natural gas	Two players link arms and spin in a circle
Petrol	Three players form a chain and take three steps backwards
Cow farts	Four players form a circle holding hands
Uranium	Five players form a line holding hands hop on one leg
Nonrenewable	Freeze command: stand still until ‘release’ command is given
Renewable	Release command: players are no longer frozen

In addition, you could also include a command that students have to give a right-handed wave for energy sources that are renewable, and a left-handed wave for those that are non-renewable.

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