Activities
The activities will lead the students to learn about fossil fuels and renewable energy while creating a living wall, a clan diorama, tour a wind turbine near the school campus, tour a solar panel site, build a solar lantern, and a windmill.
Activity 1: Students will create a global living wall with the major continents and oceans. They will add the sketches of fossil fuels and renewable energy countries export and import with a brief explanation about the sketch. During the unit teaching, students will review and add more information onto the wall. As the unit progresses, pictures, vocabulary words, and reinforcement of the theme come alive with student input. The wall is discussed and highlighted daily while students add their learning which makes the wall interactive and alive.
Activity 2: The clan diorama requires a home-school connection involving parent input. The student will require information from their parents about their four clans. The clans will be the foundation of the hoghan representing Mother Earth and the outer parts of the heavens like the sun representing Father Sky. Students will use the four stones, specific rocks, color sand, dowel stick and symbols like the arrowhead, the rainbow, the mountains, and certain animals while creating their diorama. Students will explain their diorama and how it connects to Mother Earth.
Activity 3: The class will tour a wind turbine site near the school campus within walking distance. They will listen and ask questions about the function, purpose, benefits and drawbacks of the turbine. Students will use note-taking skills during the tour; upon returning from the tour, students will write about their learning and experience about the facility and the turbine. The following day the class will tour a solar panel site and the green building that utilizes the energy. The class will use note-taking skills while touring the solar site.
Activity 4: Students will build a solar lantern using a photovoltaic cell from a simple outdoor solar light stick. Then students will take the lantern home and will use the lantern as a night light to complete their homework. The students will keep learning by writing about their experience using the lantern at home.
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