I don’t remember learning much about energy in primary school, just a little from secondary school. I have enjoyed the activities we have completed over the past couple of weeks and I can imagine myself using these activities with pupils in the classroom.

I have developed new skills as well as skills I already possess. As part of a whole class we debated on ‘Alternative Energy’. Through this my communication, teamwork and academic reading has been further developed. We had to work in groups to read academic texts to find out information to debate about. We then worked in larger groups to share our ideas and research, where we then worked collaboratively to come up with 5 key points to debate about. This caused us to work on our negotiation skills, by listening to others and then providing information for others to consider as to be stronger or weaker points. Through other activities such as creating a model of a wind turbine then creating a lesson plan, I have had to work on my planning and organisational skills. To create my model, I had to read the instructions and ensure I had all my materials available. To create the lesson plan for this activity I worked with a partner and we had to work cooperatively to plan a lesson based on the CfE E&O TCH 1-09a – I can design and construct models and explain my solutions.