FREE PRIMARY SCIENCE · Year 6
Power from the Sun
How does energy from the Sun end up lighting a room or pumping water on an outback station?
Students trace energy through a solar-powered system on a remote cattle station, learn how a team at the University of New South Wales built on earlier work to invent the solar cell now used in most of the world’s solar panels, then audit the energy transformations in their own school and recommend changes. All three lessons need only a screen or printout, paper and pencils.
3 free lessons · Australian Curriculum v9
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Sun to switch
How does energy from the Sun travel and change on an outback cattle station?
Open free interactive lesson →An Aussie invention
How did scientists working together make solar cells better?
Open free interactive lesson →Energy detectives at school
Where does our school transform electrical energy, and where is energy wasted?
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