3M
Renewable energy
Science topics
Section layout
Accompanying
worksheets
Lesson
considerations
Renewable energy resources.
Renewable vs. non-renewable.
Electricity generation from a wind
turbine.
This section looks at renewable
energy resources and the pros and
cons of different renewable resources.
An interactive diagram shows how
electricity is generated from wind.
Renewable vs. Non-renewable
This simple worksheet gives a
template for students to record the
advantages and disadvantages of
renewable and non-renewable fuels
and to list examples of each.
This section should be explored
once students have learned how
electricity is generated using fossil
fuels (e.g. after the Power station
section). Students can be given the
worksheets and asked to collect the
information from the website in a
computer-based lesson.
Alternatively the work could be set
for homework.
Renewable resources
This worksheet is a matrix of issues
with renewable resources. Students
tick which resources have the issues
stated. It encourages students to
think about renewable resources
individually. It also provides a
template for students to record how
different renewable resources work.
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