Enhance your Junior Cycle students’ scientific knowledge, skills and competencies with these online activities and ideas.
Junior Cycle students
Energy in Action is a collection of online activities and ideas. We designed it to support the teaching and learning of energy and sustainability in the Junior Cycle. It is suitable for students of Science, CSPE, Geography and Home Economics.
An inquiry approach to energy and sustainability
These resources have been developed for use with an inquiry approach to education. They aim to enhance students’ scientific knowledge, skills and competencies. The focus is on providing students with opportunities to consider and tackle problems that the future holds, e.g. sustainable practices in schools, homes and beyond.
A range of topics linked to our daily lives
It will develop young peoples’ knowledge across a range of topics such as, energy sources, efficiency, conservation, climate change and global warming. These concepts will then be linked to students’ daily lives.
Programme development
The programme was developed by the SEAI in collaboration with Junior Cycle teachers and CASTeL at Dublin City University.
Four themes
There are four different themes in the programme. These contain subsections with associated downloads and materials.
- Theme A: Energy and Sustainability
- Theme B: Heat Energy
- Theme C: Energy Awareness
- Theme D: Problem Solving in the Real World
Theme A: Energy and sustainability
| A1: Sources of energy | A2: Changing energy | A3: Energy and sustainability | A4: Exploring ocean and tidal energies |
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Overview Activity 1 |
Overview Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Worksheet C: The Power of the Wind — What do you think? Activity 4 Activity 5 Worksheet D: The Energy of Bounce Activity 6 Activity 7 Activity 8 |
Overview Activity 1 Activity 2 |
Overview Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4 |
Theme B: Heat energy
Theme C: Energy awareness
| C1: Energy and food | C2: My energy audit | C3: Global warming |
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Overview Activity 1 Activity 2 |
Overview Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4 Worksheet H: Reading a Sankey Diagram Examples of Analysing Systems for Energy Efficiency Activity 5 |
Overview Activity 1 Activity 2 |
Theme D: Problem solving in the real world
| D1: Retaining heat energy | D2: Environmental impact of using energy | D3: Cutting greenhouse gas emissions | D4: Smart packaging | D5: Solar energy |
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Overview Retaining heat energy overview Activity 1 Activity 2 Worksheet B: Insulation Materials Activity 3 Activity 4 Activity 5 |
Overview Activity 1 |
Overview |
Overview Activity 1 |
Overview Activity 1 |
Full activity books
Download all associated materials for a theme in one document.
Teacher Workshops and Presentation
SEAI provide teacher workshops on the Energy in Action Junior Cycle resources. This presentation from the workshop includes ideas for STE(A)M boxes which are a practical way to demonstrate energy. If you are interested in a teacher workshop please contact seaiworkshops@eeu.antaisce.org.
If you have created your own STE(A)M box and want to share with others please contact emer.barry@seai.ie with the details.