Lecture 2: People power
Key Stage 2 (7-11 year olds)
Lecture 2 of 3 // Supercharged: Fuelling the future
CHRISTMAS LECTURES 2016
Saiful Islam investigates one of the most important challenges facing humankind – how to generate energy without destroying the planet in the process. A fascinating and stimulating celebration of the stuff that quite literally makes the universe tick, from power for our homes, fuel for our cars and making the most important machine of them all work, the human body.
The CHRISTMAS LECTURES at the Royal Institution were started by Michael Faraday in 1825, and are now broadcast on national television every year. They are the UK's flagship science series.
The underpinning big idea
What is energy and where does it come from, how can we best make use of it, and how can we store energy to use later on?
Children will be able to work scientifically by:
• Asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them
• Making systematic and careful observations and, gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions
Children will learn to:
• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition (and energy) from what they eat
• Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food
Cross-curricular opportunities:
Maths curriculum/measurement
• compare and order mass, volume/capacity
• measure, compare, add and subtract: mass (kg/g); volume/capacity (l/ml)
Key Stage 2 (7-11 year olds)
Lecture 2 of 3 // Supercharged: Fuelling the future
CHRISTMAS LECTURES 2016
Saiful Islam investigates one of the most important challenges facing humankind – how to generate energy without destroying the planet in the process. A fascinating and stimulating celebration of the stuff that quite literally makes the universe tick, from power for our homes, fuel for our cars and making the most important machine of them all work, the human body.
The CHRISTMAS LECTURES at the Royal Institution were started by Michael Faraday in 1825, and are now broadcast on national television every year. They are the UK's flagship science series.
The underpinning big idea
What is energy and where does it come from, how can we best make use of it, and how can we store energy to use later on?
Children will be able to work scientifically by:
• Asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them
• Making systematic and careful observations and, gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions
Children will learn to:
• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition (and energy) from what they eat
• Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food
Cross-curricular opportunities:
Maths curriculum/measurement
• compare and order mass, volume/capacity
• measure, compare, add and subtract: mass (kg/g); volume/capacity (l/ml)
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