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Grade Five Classroom Excursion to local Generating Station Grade 5 Science Curriculum Expectations: UNDERSTANDING EARTH AND SPACE SYSTEMS CONSERVATION OF ENERGY AND RESOURCES

Overall Expectations 1. analyse the immediate and long-term effects of energy and resource use on society and the environment, and evaluate options for conserving energy and resources; 2. investigate energy transformation and conservation; 3. demonstrate an understanding of the various forms and sources of energy and the ways in which energy can be transformed and conserved.

Big Ideas

Energy sources are either renewable or non-renewable. (Overall expectation 3) Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but it can be transformed. (Overall expectations 2 and 3) Choices about using energy and resources have both immediate and long-term impacts. (Overall expectation 1) Conservation (reducing our use of energy and resources) is one way of reducing the impacts of using energy and resources. (Overall expectation 1)

The students will visit the generating station and learn about how the energy from the local water falls is transferred into electricity and transported to homes and businesses.

Program: tour of the facility and the waterfalls description of use of turbines to create energy, dealing with ice chunks by filtering through netting, etc. description of various energy sources discussion of the impact of using various energy sources

Duration: The students will take a bus to the station at 12:30pm and the tour will last approximately one hour and half. The bus will leave the station at 2:30pm and students and be back at school in time for their regular transportation home.

Cost: five dollars per student to cover the cost of transportation

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