Facilitators set the groundwork for students to understand the purpose and components of the project with a well-defined set of learning objectives. By delving into the lesson's fundamentals, students gain the confidence and insight to craft their unique renditions of the project.

Equip students for before starting the lesson by familiarizing them with frequently used vocabulary words, enhancing their writing skills, and engaging in constructive building exercises.

Get familiar with Sustainable Development Goals & vocabulary. Assign this lesson as student resources. Have students read the list and watch the video.

Learn how the sun provides the Earth with solar energy.

Imagine section is a critical phase where students are encouraged to conceptualize, and visualize their ideas before diving into the building and prototyping stage in Build section. Pause to have a short group reflection.

Program a micro:bit to track light levels with the light sensor, then display the results.

Understand the disparities in energy access and its impact on communities. Begin with a reflective activity where students share their understanding of energy sources and their availability in different parts of the world. Encourage brainstorming of actions students can take to promote clean energy adoption, such as raising awareness, advocating for policy changes, or participating in energy-saving initiatives.

Demonstrates understanding of the law of conservation of energy (energy can be converted from one form to another but cannot be created or destroyed). Identifies the common types of energy (kinetic, potential, electrical, chemical, light, sound and heat) used in energy transfers and transformations that occur in everyday appliances. Explains that when energy transfers and transformations take place, energy is converted into ‘useful’ and ‘wasted’ energy, for example a mechanical braking system transforms kinetic energy into heat energy which is dissipated to the atmosphere as ‘waste’ heat

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Explains how and why it is important to conserve energy. Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of how technologies impact on the environment for example, renewable energy technologies.

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of how technologies impact on the environment for example, renewable energy technologies.

Uses tools and equipment in order to carry out a task safely. Uses a range of methods to join and strengthen materials. Estimates and then measures accurately using appropriate units and tools. Creates a range of ideas and chooses a suitable solution. Evaluate solutions and explain why they are or are not suitable

Recognises characteristics of groups of materials such as wood, plastic and metal. Selects suitable materials to use in a task. Discuss the uses of materials.

Understands the difference between different engineering disciplines. Understands different energy types. Builds/simulates solutions to engineering problems.

Compares activities consisting of a single sequence of steps with those consisting of multiple parallel steps, for example, making tomato sauce and cooking pasta to be served at the same time. Identifies algorithms/instructions that include repeated groups of instructions a fixed number of times and/or loops until a condition is met. Identifies when a process is not predictable because it has a random element, for example, a board game which uses dice. Uses a recognised set of instructions/ an algorithm to sort real worlds objects for example, books in a library or trading cards.

Explains the meaning of individual instructions (including variables and conditional repetition) in a visual programming language. Predicts what a complete program in a visual programming language will do when it runs, including how the properties of objects for example, position, direction and appearance change as the program runs through each instruction. Explains and predicts how parallel activities interact

Demonstrates an understanding that all computer data is represented in binary for example, numbers, text, black and white graphics. Describes the purpose of the processor, memory and storage and the relationship between them. Demonstrates an understanding of how networks are connected and used to communicate and share information, for example the internet.

Creates programs in a visual programming language including variables and conditional repetition. Identifies patterns in problem solving and reuses aspects of previous solutions appropriately for example, reuse code for a timer, score counter or controlling arrow keys. Identifies any mismatches between the task description and the programmed solution, and indicates how to fix them.