Section 1: a. Why are fuels useful?
Children should learn:
- that fuels are substances which burn to release energy
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Section 2: b. Why are fuels useful?
Children should learn:
- how to use a Bunsen burner and heating apparatus safely
- how to use and read a Celsius-scale thermometer with care
- to decide which factors need to be controlled to make a fair comparison
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Section 3: c. Why are fuels useful?
Children should learn:
- to consider factors involved in making a fair comparison between different fuels
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Section 4: What are fossil fuels?
Children should learn:
- that coal, mineral oil and natural gas are examples of fossil fuels, which are formed from organic and non-renewable materials over many millions of years
- about the need for fuel conservation
- to find information using contents, index, glossary, key words, hotlinks
- to group sentences into paragraphs with subheadings as appropriate
- to plan and develop ideas and lines of thinking into continuous text
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Section 5: a. What are renewable energy resources?
Children should learn:
- that renewable energy resources include wind, waves, running water, sunlight, biomass and some geothermal sources
- how a device works using a renewable energy resource
- that renewable energy resources can be used to generate electricity
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Section 6: b. What are renewable energy resources?
Children should learn:
- to make and explain predictions
- to find patterns in results
- to decide whether evidence supports their predictions
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Section 7: c. What are renewable energy resources?
Children should learn:
- about the ways in which scientists work on developing energy devices, etc
- to use secondary sources of information as the basis for creative thought about an energy device or resource
- to contribute and evaluate the contribution of others to the discussion
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Section 8: Checking progress
Children should learn:
- to synthesise what they know about energy and energy resources
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Section 9: a. How do living things use energy?
Children should learn:
- that we (and all living things) need energy for every activity
- that food is the energy source of animals
- that energy is measured in joules
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Section 10: b. How do living things use energy?
Children should learn:
- to apply the procedures used with fuels to compare the energy outputs of foods
- to repeat readings to improve results
- to control relevant variables
- to compare results and consider reasons for differences
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Section 11: c. How do living things use energy?
Children should learn:
- that light is the energy source of green plants
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Section 12: Reviewing work
Children should learn:
- to relate use of energy resources to effects on the environment
- to use their knowledge in addressing a moral or social issue
- that the Sun is the energy source of almost all the Earth's energy resources
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