Abstract
A compilation of innovative educational activities to work on concepts related to the production of electrical energy is presented. To approach the real-life secondary education curriculum, they are grouped to be performed during a week denominated Renewable Energy Week: an educational proposal aimed to promote the respect for the environment through the insight on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and renewable energy sources. The students would build and perform low-cost experiments so as to deeply understand the essence of energetic transformations, as well as electricity generation. Learning by discovery, collaborative learning and experimentation, are the methodological pillars that characterize Renewable Energy Week, since they have been proven to be efficient methodologies to promote students’ learning. Innovative techniques for pupils evaluation are employed, including a rubric, Socrative application and a set of sheets regarding experiments. Through this educational proposal, the students are expected to achieve a deep understanding of some key concepts related to electricity and awaken their interest in scientific subjects, making them conscious of the transition to sustainable development that our planet urgently requires. At the same time, this project offers to teachers a series of experiments and innovative activities to work on the SDG in Physics, Chemistry and Technology subjects.
Highlights
Most of them are instructed for installation and O&M tasks, but in the near future they will be required to posse some skills such “environmental awareness and a profound understanding of sustainability” education on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is needed, as we propose through our activities
Aiming to take a look to the previous knowledge students have, a quiz with short questions related to those Physics, Chemistry and Technology concepts and linked to Renewable Energy Week will be launched at the beginning of the first session
In order to present them in a way that can be useful to teachers, they have been organized into five sessions that could be given as a special activity named Renewable Energy Week
Summary
That includes explaining the motivation of the activity, presenting the timetables and introducing them the methodology (collaborative learning, roles within the work groups and experiments) as well as the evaluation process (Socrative, “scientific sheets” and rubric). According to Cuellar and LópezAparicio [31], half of audience attention is lost within the first 10 min. After completing the electric engine and the Socrative quiz, the concept of “electromagnetism” will be reviewed with the aim of introducing to the students the operation of dynamos. Once the electric engines have been checked, it would be interesting to ask the pupils the following question: “If electricity is able to create and influence the magnetism, would magnetism influence electric charges and currents?” This is the basis of the dynamos operation. Energetic transformations will be reminded to the pupils, outlining the transformation of mechanical energy into electricity
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