School Workshops
Earth Energy Education leads workshops for Foundation Stage to Key Stage 3 students.
Each workshop is designed to meet the needs of the individual class by topic and according to age and ability.
For Key Stage 4 and 5 students we can organise for an industry professional to come and present to your school.
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Power Your School
Working with the University of Cambridge, students will join a UK wide network of scientists recording energy data in their school. They will use this data to design the best spot to install solar panels or wind turbine. This can be extended to explore the schools electricity consumption and costs and whether cost savings can be made from installing renewable energy.
Solar Power Experiments
Hands on and exciting this workshop begins with students exploring a range of solar powered toys. They will then move on to solar powered circuits and students will quickly begin to experiment with solar panels in series and parallel, predict whether they can increase the output of a solar panel and investigate which direction and angle they should face to achieve the highest output.
Electrical Carbon Footprint Study
Exploring our impact on the world and looking at reducing our consumption of energy, this workshop includes a quiz on how electricity is made and challenges students to work out how much electricity they use. Suitable for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3.
Solar Car Racing (full day activity)
A Design and Technology project where students design, make, test and race their own solar powered cars.
We can run this project across several schools inviting a select few to come for a final design and make a day at a host school. Or we can run it in one school. Suitable for KS2 upwards.
Wind Turbine Blade Design
This fun workshop challenges students to become the engineers of the future and design and test the most efficient wind turbine blades.
We bring in circuits which need to be powered by a small wind turbine and the students have to experiment to design the best.
Biodiversity Study
Explore your school grounds and learn to identify the plants, insects, mammals and birds and create food chains and webs. You can set up quadrat and transect studies to map the biodiversity on the site which you can then replicate in your school playground or nearby park.
Build a Bug Hotel
We have run this workshop for Foundation Stage right up to Key Stage 4. Students explore the different insects, mammals and reptiles in their area and they type of habitats they like. They will then design and make a bug hotel which incorporates as many different habitats as possible.
Solar Toys Design and Make
Students explore and evaluate different solar powered toys before working on their own designs for a solar powered toy. In a longer workshop students will move on to making their solar toy from junk modelling.
Solar/Wind Power Presentation
For classes new to solar and wind power this presentation covers the 'Who', 'What', ‘Where', 'When' and 'Why' of both solar and wind farms. Students are encouraged to take notes and to use these to create an information leaflet or to lead into a discussion piece or debate on the subject.
For students with a greater knowledge of renewable energy we can develop this further and explore the pros and cons of each and challenge the class to design how to power your school/town.
Mini Bug Hotels
Students will explore various habitats and learn about the insects that inhabit them, focusing on how insect body parts help with survival. They will design and construct mini bug hotels using natural materials to create microhabitats for different bugs. This hands-on activity includes observing, identifying, and recording insect behaviors, promoting an understanding of biodiversity and habitat protection. Follow-up activities involve monitoring the bug hotels to study insect activity over time.
Boggarts
Students will explore different habitats and learn about local insects. They will design and create a 'boggart' using natural materials and choose a habitat for it in the school grounds. This hands-on activity engages students in observing and recording how the boggart changes over time in its environment. Follow-up activities include building mini bug hotels to encourage and study insect life further.
