Primary lesson plans

This series of lessons has been developed to fit in with the Key Stage 2 and P1-P7 curriculum.

The lessons give pupils a firm foundation for understanding environmental issues.

The full resources for each lesson will be uploaded over the next couple of weeks, so please check back often to see what is new.

Each lesson plan you download will also earn you leaves for you school.

Setting the scene

Turning fossil fuels into electricity

Once upon a time 300 million years ago...

How fossil fuels are formed over time, looking specifically at coal

Energy in our school

How energy might be being wasted in your school

How much energy does our school use?

Determining your schools carbon footprint

What are our schools energy habits?

Performing an energy audit of your school

What can we learn from our habits check?

Logging the habits checks on the website and reviewing the results

Organising our campaign

Choosing the most appropriate actions to combat energy waste

Action against energy waste!

Developing materials for your awareness-raising campaign