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Lesson 2 – WHAT USES ENERGY? LEVEL 1 DOMAIN & DOMENTIONS Humanities **LEARNING FOCUS:** This is the 2nd lesson for the unit of saving energy. Students will learn what uses energy in their home and community and ways of saving energy **OBJECTIVE(S):** Students will be able to identify and name uses of energy in their home and at school. 10 Minutes 10 Minutes 10 Minutes 10 Minutes || Students will be on the floor ready for the lesson. Still on the floor listening, students are also encouraged to answer the questions and think more about what uses energy The students stand and form a circuit. To do this they will be in a circle, at 2 ends of the circle one student will have a container with plastic tokens in it and the person opposite will have just and empty container. The students are to walk around in a circle taking a token out of the box and walking in the circle when they reach the other container they place the tokens in there and continue to walk around until all the tokens have been taken from one box to the other. The students will be at their desks and express what they just did by either writing or drawing. || Have the students quiet on the floor and ask them to recall the previous lesson. -What is the topic called that we are learning? -What did we learn the previous lesson? -What are some things that use energy? -What do you think we could be learning this week? This week we are learning about things that use energy in the classroom and at home. Ask the students too look around the room and see if they can see anything that uses energy. -lights, heater, air conditioner, TV etc Explain to the students about what happens when you turn a light on. A light switch isn’t just a light switch, there is a lot more involved. To demonstrate this, explain to the students the activity of a power circuit. By the students doing this, they get the visual idea of how lights work. Have the words Power Circuit and Light Switch written on the board so the students can use either of those words on their drawing. They are to either draw or write about the activity they just did. Walk around the students helping where needed and also keeping them on track with the task. If students are having trouble draw the 1st bit of the circuit oh the board. || 2 containers Enough tokens so the students get to go around at least twice. Whiteboard markers Paper Pencils Textas Crayons ||
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