Teaching Resources for Climate Change Wind Power

QCA Unit:	Geo-20 (Adapted)	Subject: Geography Year Group: 5-6
Name:	An environmental issue: Electricity use and climate change - Why and where should we use wind turbines?

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This is a ‘long’ unit. It deals with an environmental issue - Electricity Use and Climate Change - Why should we use wind turbines and where should we put them? It provides an example of an investigation for pupils who have developed fieldwork skills. It involves the pupils in collecting and analysing information and using this in a decision-making exercise, the results of which can be disseminated to the whole school.
The unit offers links to literacy, ICT, and education for sustainable development.

The key questions for any issue are likely to be:
What is the issue? - identify it from news reports, internet, data collection of energy use.
Where is the issue? - How far does it extend? locally, nationally, globally
Why is it an issue? - How do opinions vary with regard to electricity use, climate change, renewable energy?
What are the views of different people?
What do the class think about the issue?
How might the issue develop in the future?

The optional extra geography lessons in lessons 3 and 4b need to be covered in order for the opinions of the local community to be collated.

PLACES
•School locality
•Widening range of scales
•Physical and human features

SKILLS
•Observe and question
•Collect and record evidence
•Use maps and plans
•Analyse and communicate
•Use geographical vocabulary
•Undertake fieldwork
•Use ICT

THEMES
•Settlement: land use issue
•Environment: impact, sustainability

Cartoon - Climate Change	TLCP
Cartoon - Where should we put wind turbines?	TLCP
Cartoon - Why should we use wind turbines?	TLCP
PowerPoint Carbon Footprint Game	TLCP
PowerPoint Devices to measure the wind	TLCP
PowerPoint There's more to renewable energy	TLCP
PowerPoint Where does our electricity come from	TLCP
Quiz - Climate Change	TLCP
Quiz - Where should we put wind turbines?	TLCP
Quiz - Why should we use wind turbines?	TLCP
Video - About the wind	TLCP
Video - Climate Change	TLCP
Video - How wind is formed	TLCP
Video - Where should we put wind turbines	TLCP
Video - Why should we use wind turbines?	TLCP
Worksheet An investigation to find the windiest place	TLCP
Worksheet Carbon Footprint Game	TLCP
Worksheet How electricity is made	TLCP
Worksheet Land Deed	TLCP
Worksheet There's more to renewable energy	TLCP


Where the Unit Fits In:	Expectations at the end of this unit
This unit is made up of some of the lessons from the Our Planet series on Wind Power for Key stage 2. If you are planning to teach the whole series of lessons, then you need not look at this document - it is specifically designed for those teachers wishing to simply teach the Geography strand. Please note that if you are planning to teach the Science or D & T unit alongside it, you will find some of the same lessons used because they cover two subjects (e.g. Science and Geography). In this case combine the 2 units and teach the lessons consecutively. It is helpful if pupils have: •studied aspects of their own and other localities •developed map and fieldwork skills •some knowledge about the appliances that use electrical energy •acquired the skills needed to undertake a survey	Most Children Will: begin to account for their own views about the environment recognising that other people may have reasons for thinking differently; identifying how people affect the environment and recognise ways people try to manage it for the better. They will understand how to collate information by designing a questionnaire for individuals and collecting scientific information about a natural resource - the wind.
	Some children will not have made so much progress and will: undertake simple tasks relating to maps; state a range of views held by people about the issue. They will have gathered some information about peoples opinions but this may not be systamtically.
	Some children will have progressed further and be able to: recognise and describe how people can improve or damage their environment; come to a reasoned, personal view about what should happen; begin to understand the democratic process used to make local decisions. They will have managed to collate information through questionnaires and interviews, drawing conclusions from what they find. They will also have gathered scientific data and presented this to demonstrate their findings.


Climate change Lesson: KS2 Wind 1
Lesson Objectives To ask scientific questions: how is human energy use affecting planet Earth? To plan how to answer questions. To understand the terms 'climate change', 'carbon footprint' and 'global warming.' To decide what kind of evidence to collect. To use video and internet to find out information.	Suggested Activities To learn about climate change - Video Climate Change - Whole Class Activity To understand that we all have a carbon footprint - PowerPoint 'Carbon Footprint Game' Find out about the schools carbon footprint- Group Activity Optional ICT lesson: Investigating on the internet - Group Activity Extension activities - mini dictionary, rap performance, poem or newsflash.
	Learning Outcome Pupils understand some of the ways humans are changing the planet. They will know how to use ICT to do investigations.
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What changes can we make to the energy we use? Lesson: KS2 Wind 3
Lesson Objectives To discuss and identify ways behaviour could be changed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and help mitigate climate change. To develop an action plan to reduce and monitor energy use. To promote the action plan by designing a poster, piece of music, drama or poetry to encourage reduced energy consumption.	Suggested Activities To understand that we can make changes at school to save energy and reduce our carbon footprint To develop an action plan with a creative presentation to encourage people to save energy To understand that the energy we use can be generated using renewable sources. Optional Geography lesson - To find out views on energy use, production and consumption
	Learning Outcome Pupils will design an action plan that is measurable and achieveable. Pupils will choose a message and explore creative ways of delivering this. Pupils will evaluate their success or ways of improving their idea
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Designing a wind speed measuring device Lesson: KS2 Wind 4a
Lesson Objectives To understand how the wind is formed, and that it blows in different directions at different speeds. To plan an investigation to measure wind speed at various locations. To make a simple wind measuring device and test it.	Suggested Activities To learn about the wind - Wind Videos, 1 About the Wind or, 2 How wind is formed To understand that there are ways of measuring the wind - PowerPoint 'Devices to measure the wind' To plan an investigation to find the windiest place - Worksheet Make the wind measuring device - Group or Paired Activity Extension Activities - Create a wind rose graph, ready to measure wind direction
	Learning Outcome Suggest practical ideas for assessing the wind strength.
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Collecting data by using a wind measuring device Lesson: KS2 Wind 4b
Lesson Objectives To collect and record data about wind strength at several locations on the school site. To recognise patterns in the data collected. To look critically at the data collected and recognise the limitations of both their own and other’s evidence. To make a reasoned decision based on the evidence collected.	Suggested Activities Design a record sheet (or finish design started in lesson 3a) Measure the wind speed using the wind measuring device Assess the results collected Identify a single potential site for a wind turbine at school. Extension Activities - newspaper report with photo montage, data presentation ICT, bar charts
	Learning Outcome Collect and record data carefully. Identify how strongly the results show a trend making particular reference the limitations of the assessment system they have chosen to use. Suggest reasons for any differences in windiness using scientific knowledge where possible Draw conclusions recognising limitations in evidence
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There's more to renewable energy than wind power! Lesson: KS2 Wind 6
Lesson Objectives To review and consolidate work done on wind energy and test pupils' learning To enable pupils to research alternative kinds of renewable energy	Suggested Activities To understand there are different types of renewable energy through discussion To test knowledge through a quiz activity - PowerPoint 'There's more to renewable energy' To imagine using renewable energy to create a sustainable life - Worksheet 11 Deed to land plot Extension activities - internet research, report writing, energy debate Optional Maths lesson (linked to 2c How much electricity are we using?) Review school energy use
	Learning Outcome Pupils understand that there are different types of renewable energy. Pupils have tested their knowledge of renewable energy and applied this to a design or communication task.
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QCA Unit:

Subject: Geography Year Group: 5-6

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An environmental issue: Electricity use and climate change - Why and where should we use wind turbines?

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Where the Unit Fits In:

Expectations at the end of this unit

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Some children will not have made so much progress and will:

Some children will have progressed further and be able to:

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Subject: Geography
Year Group: 5-6

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at the end of this unit