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Years 7-8

Dive into lessons that facilitate a transition to more specialised subjects. Activities include persuasive writing and scaffolded role-play, and students use real-world analytical tools to evaluate their ideas. Designed for 11-14 year olds.

Energy And Sustainability – Science – Years 7&8

1hr 40mins

Energy and sustainability (UK)

In this lesson, students will be immersed in, and connect with 2040, focusing on the topic of sustainability and renewable energy. Students begin by exploring the concept of sustainability and work as a class to create a definition of sustainability. They then look at sustainable energy and work in groups to investigate different types of renewable energy and energy efficiency practices (year 8).

Renewable Energy – Science – Years 7&8

1hr 40mins

Renewable energy (UK)

In this lesson, students will be immersed in, and connect with 2040, focusing on the topic of renewable energy. Students begin by exploring what we mean by renewable and non-renewable resources, and investigate a range of resources, classifying them as either renewable or non-renewable based on their regeneration rates.

Transport And Liveability – Geography – Years 7&8

1hrs

Transport and liveability (UK)

In this lesson, students will be immersed in, and connect with 2040, focusing on the topics of transport and liveability. Students begin by participating in a warm-up activity around their personal transport use before investigating liveability and the factors of liveability that are important to them.

Energy And Liveability – Geography – Years 7&8

1hrs

Energy and liveability (UK)

In this lesson, students will be immersed in, and connect with 2040, focusing on the topics of energy and liveability. Students will begin by participating in a barometer activity to explore their understanding of liveability, and thinking about how energy and our environment relate to liveability.

A 2040 Vision For Your Community – Years 7-10

4hrs 50mins

A 2040 vision for your community (UK)

This teaching resource is designed to guide students through a project where they will consolidate and extend learning from any of the other lessons in the 2040 units. It works in support of the curriculum points explored in those units. Social Action Lessons will have students taking what they have learned in previous lessons and engaging others to join The Regeneration.

Solutions To Climate Change – Science – Year 10

2hrs 32mins

Exploring the themes of 2040 (UK)

In this lesson, students will be immersed in and connect with the documentary film 2040. Students begin by clarifying the key terms used in the 2040 documentary. They then work in groups to investigate some of the challenges for our future as identified in the documentary (including energy, transport, and food production). Students undertake research into their assigned challenge and then share their findings with the class. They then work in groups to brainstorm solutions to their challenge. Finally, students are invited to watch and reflect on the 2040 documentary film.

Tuning into the documentary_Years 7-11

1hrs

Tuning into the documentary (7-11, UK)

In this lesson, students will be immersed in and connect with the documentary film 2040 – it is a great lesson to conduct before watching the documentary in full.

finding out_talking about transport 1

1hr 3mins

Talking about transport (UK)

In this lesson, students will be immersed in and connect with the documentary film 2040, focusing on the topic of transport. Students interview their peers about why we use transport and then look at what types of transport might be available in the future. Working in groups, they brainstorm ideas for future sustainable transport options. Students select one idea to develop and create an annotated sketch of this idea to share with the class through a gallery walk.

Energy And Liveability – Geography – Years 7&8

1hrs

Energy and liveability (US)

In this lesson, students will be immersed in, and connect with, the documentary film 2040, focusing on the topics of energy and liveability. Students will explore their understanding of liveability, thinking about how energy and our environment relate to liveability. They will work collaboratively to conduct research into the impacts of fossil fuels on our environment, explore a sustainable energy case study, and then work in groups to compare electricity produced from coal and solar.

Finding out_exploring energy

2hrs 31mins

Exploring the themes of 2040 (US)

In this lesson, students will be immersed in and connect with the documentary film 2040. Students begin by clarifying the key terms used in the 2040 documentary. They then work in groups to investigate some of the challenges we face as identified in the documentary (including energy, transport, and food production). They work in groups to brainstorm solutions to these challenges and are then are invited to watch and reflect on the 2040 documentary film.

Sustainable transport and scatterplotts_year 11_option 1

2hrs 57mins

Sustainable transport and scatterplots (US)

In this lesson, students will view excerpts from 2040 then access and evaluate statistical reports in the media and other places about sustainable transportation of the future, and they will use the data to construct scatter plots, make comparisons and draw conclusions.

Girls for the planet_maths_year 10

2hrs 19mins

Girls for the planet (US)

In this lesson, students will investigate the environmental benefits that arise from empowering women and girls. They will access statistics about the education of women and represent this data using back-to-back stem and leaf plots and histograms.They will also undertake an action that will inform the school community about what they have learned or how they can support the empowerment and education of girls around the world.

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