Students on Fire While Inquiring Into Renewable Energy Sources!

Today the Grade 4/5 students in room 37 rotated around five centers in which they explored and found out about various aspects of renewable energy sources such as: wind power, hydroelectric power, solar power, muscle power (kinetic energy), and fuel cells.

Students were challenged to connect easy energy transfer systems (which for the most part changed a renewable energy source such as water current into a usable energy source such as electricity) and describe them in terms of our key concepts of form, function, and connection.

In groups and using iPads as recording devices, students observed and described the different components of these systems, hypothesised about how the systems worked to generate electricity, and made inferences about how environmental placement of such systems could affect the amount of power they generate, all on shared Google Docs from our Google Classroom site.

In the excitement, however, their absent-minded-scientist-of-a-teacher forgot to take many pictures. Hopefully, students will make up for this shortfall with their own images they took to document their explorations. Enjoy the fortunate few photographs below and don't forget to always check our class photos by clicking on the "Photos" label in the cloud to the right of this post.

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