Town (grade 5)

There are many buildings in town

Guess the place in town

Revise vocabulary

Directions: go straight on, turn left, turn right....

Lesson 7 test

PAIR WORK 

Children are invited to have a conversation about energy sources by following a model:

Oil

A: Is oil a renewable source of energy?

B: No, it isn’t

A: Is it emission free?

B: No, it isn't

Exchange roles and have the same dialogue about:

• Solar power
• Hydropower
• Wind energy
• Oil
• Natural gas
• Coal
• Biomass

Fill in the test

Lesson 6: Situation in Italy. Let's play games

What's the situation in Italy?

Visit the following page and fill in the table:

Find four words hidden in the "Word search game"

Let's play a memory game:

Generate electricity: how does it work?

This is a torch that works with electricity generated by pressing a button:

This is how it works:

Let's have a look inside

Here you can see what happens inside any time you press the botton

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In the following video there are instructions for building a simple generator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmo7UUma1ko

Energy - Lesson 5: renewable sources of energy. what are advantages and disadvantages?

Let's divide in groups: every group has to find advantages and disadvantages in using different renewable sources of energy:

1. WIND POWER
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2. SOLAR POWER
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3. HYDROPOWER
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4. GEOTHERMAL POWER
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Find some information at the following link: http://www.eia.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=renewable_home-basics

More renewable sources of energy:

5. HYDROGEN POWER
A Hydrogene powered car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9plp8KsNq1k

6. BIOMASS POWER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slQRWbRE8VI

Wave power (another type of hydropower)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcStpg3i5V8

Energy - Lesson 3: primary and secondary energy energy sources

Energy sources: primary and secondary

Read this internet page and fill in the table:

http://www.eniscuola.net/en/argomento/energy-knowledge/energy-sources/primary-and-secondary-sources/

 
PDF

Let's play with energy:

let's make a pinwheel

What happens if you blow on the pinwheel?

What energy are you simulating?

Let's make an aluminium spiral and put it over a candle: what happens?

Energy - Lesson 4: Fossil fuels

We use a lot of energy every day:

Where does the majority of it come from?

While watching the video fill in this exercise

We don't want a polluted planet: so why don't we use other energy sources?

A Clil path to study ENERGY

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

Lesson 6

Lesson 7