Energy Resources: Physics Group Project

Students will be put into groups of 3-4. Each student group will be assigned an energy resource. There are 8 energy resources, which are:

Wind Power / Turbines
Solar Power / Panels
Fossil Fuels
Nuclear Power
Biofuels
Hydroelectricity
Tidal Power
Water Waves
Geothermal energy
List out these energy resources to the students, then assign one to each group. Explain to students that a brief reminder of how each energy resource works will be given later in the presentation.

After this, students will be introduced to three scenarios / geographical locations .
‘The countryside’
‘The coast’
‘The city’

Teachers can flip back and forth between slide 2 and slide 3,4,5 to explain each geographical location.

The task at hand is to have the groups select a geographical location that their energy resource would suit best. After selecting an appropriate location within their groups, students will have to present their arguments as to why their energy resource suits their chosen geographical location best, how the resource works, its advantages and its disadvantages to the class. How the students present this is up to them, they can choose from a list of different presentation formats.