Appliances are devices used for a particular purpose that usually require electricity to work, e.g. fridge, vacuum cleaner or TV.

Meters measure the flow and amount of electricity or gas into different buildings or homes.

Active travel is ways of travelling that involve some activity from people, e.g. walking, cycling or scooting.

Reducing energy use

Geography

Energy production

Energy use and climate change

Non-renewable energy sources

Renewable sources of energy

Solving the energy problem

This unit provides a foundation for 'Sustainable world: Does it matter how we live?', which investigates how we can develop more sustainable ways of living.

This unit builds on 'Natural resources: What are they, where are they and why are they important?'. It extends and deepens pupils’ understanding of energy as a resource that is essential for life, but that also contributes to climate change through the continued use of non-renewable energy sources, and investigates some solutions to this conundrum.

This unit explores how energy is produced and used, and how this links to climate change. Pupils compare renewable and non-renewable sources, consider how energy use can be reduced, and evaluate different responses to the world’s growing energy demands.

Energy: how do we power the world?

A device that measures the amount of energy that goes into a building

Which of the following is not a form of active travel?

Which of the following is an electrical appliance?

Order the energy usage in different transport sectors in the UK in 2022. Start with the highest usage.

Which of the following are suggestions for how to reduce energy use?

Order these school uses of energy use from highest to lowest

people in some countries use more energy than in others

Which of these countries gets most of its energy from renewable sources?

Which renewable energy source tends to produce more electricity in winter?

Producing power from which of these sources of energy creates carbon emissions?

We use the same amount of electricity every day.

All the things that use electricity use different amounts of energy.

Everyone in the world uses too much electricity.

Which of the following statements is true

Reducing energy use

Lesson outcome