Supporting the explorations and learning activities of the Energy Revealed Program.
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The economic and environmental impact of our electricity use depends on a variety of interconnected factors, such as how your electricity is generated, your electricity supplier, time of year and whether you live in a rural or urban location. Click on your province or territory to get started.
Activities Using The Electrical Energy Calculators
The Electrical Energy Calculators were developed to support GreenLearning's Energy Revealed Program. For grades 4-8 (Junior) and grades 9-12 (Senior), the Energy Revealed Program features over 30 lessons and activities for learners to explore power, energy and sustainability.
Length of Time: 3 hours
Monitoring Ecosystems
This activity provides two important activity modes, the first being a background reading, the second, an exercise in summarizing and analyzing environmental data. The backgrounder provides essential foundational knowledge about the main topic (environmental monitoring). The activity that follows tests learners’ comprehension of the ideas in the backgrounder and allows them to apply this understanding using a realistic example
Length of Time: 1.5 hours to build + 3 weeks to observe
Ecosystem in a Bottle
This activity encourages learners to observe an ecosystem by having them observe and investigate a class bottle biosphere. The investigation will allow students to make connections between the bottle and the Earth as a whole unit and ecosystem. The lesson is not dependent upon success in creating a thriving bottle, as a dying bottle may create more discussion than a successful one.
The watershed activity challenges learners to visualize and ecosystem through a special representation, namely a map. By examining information about a local or familiar landmark, this activity also enables learners to transfer their theoretical understanding of ecosystem services and benefits to the real world in which they live.
Speak For The Trees: Pre-Recorded Classroom Workshop
In this guided lesson, learners will discover how their personal energy choices impact the environment by relating energy use to the role of trees as the lungs of the Earth. This special Get OutsideEdition of Speak for the Trees was designed for learners grade 4-8 and featured in Take Me Outside Day 2021. Download the lesson guide here.
