BREESI Bringing Renewable EnErgy to
Schools Initiative

Drumlin’s Educational Programme for Key Stage 2 Pupils 

Teachers’ Guide

 

Welcome to these updated and expanded resources designed to inform and support educators in schools or elsewhere.

We hope that you will find information, insights and ideas here which will help to raise awareness and increase knowledge and understanding of renewables and their role in limiting the effects of climate change.

There is an urgent need to draw attention to this problem but also, importantly, to let new generations know that solutions to the problems exist and that the journey to a better outcome for us and the planet has already started in Northern Ireland.

The Guide content is provided in this easily accessible way to allow you to pick and choose what is most useful to you and to allow you to make changes to the Activity Sheets, if desired, to suit your audience.

CONTENTS

1 Welcome
2 Background
3 For Principals, Governors, Class Teachers and Parents
4 For Teachers
4.1 Drumlin Renewables Powerpoint
4.2 Pupil Challenge - Build a Model Wind Turbine
5 Activity Sheets
Activity Sheet 1- Blow me Down
Activity Sheet 2 - Maths Questions
Activity Sheet 3 - Maths Answers
Activity Sheet 4 - Pupil Challenge
Activity Sheet 5 - Wind Turbine Design Ideas
6 Wind and Renewables Websites
7 Follow-up Projects
Appendix 1 Power From the Wind in NI
Appendix 2 Solar Power in NI
Appendix 3 Hydroelectric Power in NI
Appendix 4 Geothermal Power
Appendix 5 Biomass and Biogas Power
Appendix 6 Drumlins Ballyrobert Turbine Construction
Appendix 7 Optional Teacher Demonstration 1 - Electric Current
Appendix 8 Optional Teacher Demonstration 2 - Energy Conversions
Appendix 9 Completed Drumlin Sample Risk Assessment Form
Appendix 10 Blank EA Risk Assessment Form