Sustainable Buildings: Project-based learning

This is a really engaging resource that takes a project based learning approach to students designing and presenting a sustainable building. There is a series of 4 lessons, including one piece of homework. The first lesson comprises of a comprehension activity to inform students about the different types of sustainable building design. The second lesson focuses on students preparing a presentation to read in front on the class in the third lesson. The fourth lesson tests students on what they have learned about sustainable building design. The resource is ideal for KS3, however could be easily adapted for KS4.

Objectives:

• Identify a range of sustainable features
• Explain how the features are sustainable
• Start to evaluate which feature is the most sustainable