IPCC - Everything You Need to Know About Energy

Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Year 6:

Year 6 Science:

• Electrical energy can be transferred and transformed in electrical circuits and can be generated from a range of sources (ACSSU097)

Relevant parts of the Year 6 Science achievement standards: Students analyse requirements for the transfer of electricity and describe how energy can be transformed from one form to another when generating electricity

Year 7:

Year 7 Science:

• Some of Earth’s resources are renewable, but others are non-renewable (ACSSU116)

Relevant parts of the Year 7 Science achievement standards: Students analyse how the sustainable use of resources depends on the way they are formed and cycle through Earth systems

Syllabus Outcomes: ST3-6PW, SC4-12ES

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – Discuss the IPCC report with students, lead students through explicit teaching about various methods of energy generation, and support students in independent research and independent creative work

• A device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Individual devices capable of accessing the internet – one per student (optional)
• Factsheet – Everything you need to know about energy
• Powerpoint – Everything you need to know about energy and the climate
• Whiteboard

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Communication
• Critical thinking
• Digital literacy
• Global citizenship

Cool would like to thank the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and The Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation for generously supporting the development of these lessons.