To establish that domestic appliances use energy at different rates and give rise to different financial costs.

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To establish that energy is measured in joules and that some kinds of travel are more expensive than others.

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To establish that individual choices can make a difference, eg when comparing lamps.

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To introduce the idea that a chemical store can be emptied to do lifting (filling a gravitational store) or warming (filling a...

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The purpose of this activity is to emphasise the point that care must be taken when selecting aspects of a process to describe...

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Here you can relate an everyday description of a simple situation (perhaps a car running down a hill) to how the energy is...

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This activity involves a discussion of the energy changes associated with a pendulum moving to and fro and probes the idea of...

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Here pupils can practice describing carefully chosen processes in terms of changes in energy stores. The processes must be...

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This activity is to promote discussion about power stations. It can serve to introduce the modelling program VnR to a class...

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This activity gives students an opportunity to plan and then carry out sensible investigations in the context of renewable...

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The purpose of this activity is to introduce the conventions of, and pupils to acquire familiarity with, Sankey diagrams...

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The purpose of this activity is to enable pupils to build up some idea of the size of the joule unit of energy.

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