Energy resources - KS3 Activate lesson

A full 1 hour lesson designed for a mixed ability year 8 class.
This is the 2nd lesson in “Chapter 2 - Energy” from Activate 2, Physics. This lesson is on ‘energy resources’.
This lesson should be suitable to teach to any KS3 Physics class, even by those where physics is not their specialism.
This lesson (and all lessons in this unit) is designed to be interactive and engaging, with plenty of real world examples and independent tasks.

From this lesson, students should be able to:

1. Explain what a non-renewable energy resource is
2. Describe some uses of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas)
3. Describe how fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) are formed
4. Evaluate the use of thermal power plants and nuclear power plants
5. Explain what a renewable energy resource is
6. Give some examples of renewable energy resources

All of my lesson resources contain:

• A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
• An interesting lesson hook, careers link, or retrieval practice to start the lesson
• Teacher input slides with dual coding and reduced cognitive load
• Teacher models
• Regular ‘check for understanding’ slides, such as hand signals quizzes
• Regular student independent practice slides, with optional scaffolds, challenges and answer slides
• A plenary task