Insulating Houses and Buildings Lesson

Insulating Homes and Buildings Full Lesson

This full lesson includes a lesson PowerPoint with student activities and tasks included within the document. Answers are also included at each stage for student review. This lesson focuses on the ways of insulating the home and comparing methods from a writing and math perspective e.g. there is a creative writing task and a bar chart task included in the lesson. Follow up activities include extension questions, as well as key questions on environmental impact to extend knowledge.

Included in the lesson:

Engaging starter task
Lesson objectives and lesson keywords
Task 1: Information extraction task
Extension question review
Task 2: Creative writing to promote better home insulation
Task 3: Bar chart drawing on heat transfer
Reflective plenary activity

This lesson is ideal for students who have no prior knowledge on the topic. The lesson introduces new keywords such as ‘infrared’ and ‘insulation’ and engages students through linked activities which are fully resourced and come with accompanying answers.

The resource is a Powerpoint presentation with an accompanying PDF copy, so the resource can be edited and there is also a print-ready version for included worksheets.

*Please note that this lesson may have American spellings