Renewable Energy Unit - Grade 3 to 6

37 minute video + 7 Printable Experiments + Scope & Sequence + Cross-curricular Teaching & Project Ideas + Curriculum links & more

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A complete unit of work on renewable energy
designed for Grades 3 to 6.

Go beyond the theory.
Watch your students build working solar ovens from pizza boxes and wind turbines
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Explains the complex shift from fossil fuels to sustainability 
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What Your Students Will Discover

The Pizza Box Bakery
Can you cook with just the sun? Students build a functioning solar oven to observe heat radiation and insulation in action.  

The Invisible Giant
Harness the wind! Students design and test their own turbine blades to see how moving air can be transformed into mechanical power.  

Ghost in the Machine 
Spinning makes elecrtricity? Students build their own simple motor to demystify the relationship between magnetism and electricity.  

Greenhouse what?
Move past the buzzwords. Use hands-on modelling to show students exactly how the enhanced greenhouse effect works and why the world is pivoting to renewables.  

Fire & Air
Use a simple tea light to create a candle-powered windmill teacher demonstration, demonstrating the powerful upward force of convection currents.  

The School Energy Audit
Take science out of the classroom. Students become "Energy Detectives," analyzing electricity bills and conducting audits to find real-world ways to save power.

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Tailor your teaching approach to meet the specific inquiry skills required for Years 3 through 6.

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Middle Primary

Focus on guided inquiry. Use the student experiment templates to help learners transition from observation to predicting outcomes and identifying fair test variables.

Key Focus Areas
  • • Predicting & observing
  • • Organising data in tables
  • • Identifying single variables
5-6

Upper Primary

Emphasis on independent investigation and evidence-based analysis. Utilise marking rubrics to assess student ability to justify conclusions and evaluate experiment design.

Key Focus Areas
  • • Analysing complex patterns
  • • Evaluating reliability of results
  • • Cross-curricular project work

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- Australia: Version 9.0 (All states) + the new NSW & VIC Syllabus Outcomes
- USA: Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) + TEKS/Virginia SOL.  
- UK/Canada/NZ: The Ontario Curriculum & NZ Curriculum
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