Home Is Where the Heat Is

Home Is Where the Heat Is
A day for pupils to learn about renewable energy & insulation and their role in reducing green-house gas emissions. They will carry out an investigation on the effectiveness of different types of insulation and find out about the role of the sun in photosynthesis and in generating electricity. Students will explore some of the sustainable features which help us to reduce green-house gas emissions at our Centre. They will have the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of climate action through an achievable personal behaviour change.

Learning objectives

• To understand that changes to the climate is a natural process, but that the heating of the atmosphere has accelerated through human activities releasing greenhouse gases.
• To define renewable energy sources.
• To explain how sustainable features help to reduce green-house gas emissions.

National science curriculum links
Y5 
Properties and changes of materials

• Compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties including their conductivity.
• Give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials.

Y6
Evolution and inheritance

• Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.

Working scientifically 

• Asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them.

National geography curriculum links
KS2
Geographical skills and fieldwork 

• Use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols, and key (including the use of Ordnance Survey maps) to build their knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world.