Sustain/Ed - Chapter 4: Units and Smart Tech

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 4: Units and Smart Tech
This chapter focuses on energy that we use in our day-to-day lives and how we keep track of this. The class will be introduced to scientific units and discover how these are useful to us. Students will calculate how much power is used in real-world activities. They will also think about what it means for appliances to be efficient and inefficient. Finally, students will investigate how technology can help us to use energy in smart ways.

Targets:

• Students encounter scientific units and how important they are to describe things in a simple and common way

• Students use units to calculate how much power we use in our homes and at school

• Students practice being efficient and inefficient

• Students find out how technology can help us save energy and money