Energy conservation is explored through interacting with features and displays at the ecohouse. We will investigate energy usage in everyday life, at home and school. To expand their connection to the source of electricity, students will play a hands-on game that shows how over time non-renewable resources will be depleted.

Grade 5 → Science and Technology: Conservation of Energy

• Analyse the long-term impacts on society and the environment of human uses of energy and natural resources, and suggest ways to reduce these impacts
• Evaluate the effects of various technologies on energy consumption and propose ways in which individuals can improve energy conservation
• Identify a variety of forms of energy and give examples of how that energy is used in everyday life
• Identify renewable and non-renewable sources of energy
• Describe how energy is stored and transformed in a given device or system
• Recognize that energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be changed from one form to another
• Explain that energy that is apparently “lost” from a system has been transformed into other energy forms that are not useful to the system