Students’ age range: 12-14
Topic: Saving energy at home to protect the environment
Type of device: Laptop
Description: The class is related to energy conservation at home, students will identify ways to save energy and create strategies to save it. The class starts with Step 1: Warm up: the teacher presents the objetives of the class_asks students how much they pay for electricity. Step 2: context and content, teacher arranges groups of 5 students, they agree on a rubric to use for working all together. Step 3: Students are asked what they would do to save energy at home. Step 4: Students visit webpages to check ways in which enery is waisted.
Students choose one unit in the house and describe ways the electric appliances should be used to save energy. Step 5: students work in groups to define 4 ways to save energy at home, they must based their recomendations on the information found in internet