Video summary
Coal on fire = lamp turned on, right? Well, there's a bit more to it than that. Cool takes you inside the complex process of converting energy into usable electricity.
Curriculum Mapping
Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 6 Science
Investigate the transfer and transformation of energy in electrical circuits, including the role of circuit components, insulators and conductors (AC9S6U03)
Year 6 Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 6 students explain how changes in physical conditions affect living things. They identify the role of circuit components in the transfer and transformation of electrical energy.
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Want to offer your class a bit more? Here are some presentations, lessons and factsheets that can be used with this video
- Cool+ presentation: Energy as Electricity
- Cool.org lesson: Investigation into How We Create and Use Energy - Research Project
- Cool.org lesson: IPCC - Everything you need to know about energy
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