Sustain/Ed - Chapter 2: Energy

Sustain/Education Learning Module
The Sustain/Ed Learning Module is an educational package which augments the KS2 curriculum in the UK, offering activities which reinforce awareness of sustainability and climate action while maintaining core learning outcomes.

Young people understand the climate problem. Let’s teach them the solutions

Chapter 2: Energy
Human energy usage is vital to our daily lives. But what is energy? Energy makes things happen, but is hard to define because it comes in many forms. This Chapter explores where we get energy, describes how it is stored, and provides exciting examples of its use in our world.

Targets:

• Students meet the concept that energy is never created or destroyed, only transformed

• Students participate in the Energy Mapping Challenge

• Students learn how energy is transferred through: (1) the formation of the universe, (2) the human body

• Students identify different forms of energy, e.g. electricity