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National curriculum links
KS3, Sc4, Unit 7I - Energy resources.

Main learning objectives
Pupils learn:
to relate the use of energy resources to effects on the environment;
to find information using contents, index, keywords and hotlinks;
to use secondary sources of information as the basis for creative thought;
to plan and develop ideas and lines of thinking into continuous text;
to use their knowledge in addressing a moral or social issue.

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Fuel story

Where does the energy in fuels come from?
Here are two stories about where the energy for Balvider’s evening of telly-watching and Mintu’s hot dinner came from.
TV
Plug
Power station
Ancient forest
Sun

Balvinder’s TV. Where did the energy to keep the telly on come from?
Mains electricity. Where did the electricity come from?
A COAL fired power station, where fuel is burned to generate electricity.
Where did the energy in the coal come from?
Plants and trees that turned into coal three hundred million years ago.
Where did the energy in the pre-historic plants come from?
The SUN!

Cooking pot
Wood burning stove
Acacia tree
Sun
Mintu’s hot dinner.
Where did the energy to cook the food come from?
 A fire in his cooking stove.
Where did the energy for the fire come from?
 Fuel WOOD, from an Acacia tree.
W here did the energy in the Acacia tree come from?
The SUN!
  
Now that you’ve followed these fuel stories, it’s time to create one about a fuel you’ve used.

Draw a picture for each stage and fill in the caption boxes provided, but only use as many boxes as your story needs. Some energy journeys (like the one above that involves electricity) are longer and more complicated than others.

You can make the story up from anything you already know, or can find out, about where you get energy from. Put in any extra bits of detail that you can. Make sure you trace the energy all the way back to the sun. If you get stuck, try asking other people, looking in the library or searching the internet.

Start by picking something you do that you think uses a fuel. What about a journey in a vehicle, staying warm, having a cup of tea, a barbeque, a bonfire?

Energy diagram boxes

(The arrows show which direction the energy is being transfered. E.g. the energy in a tree comes from the sun, so we show the energy being transfered from the sun to the tree.)

 

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