The Sustainable Energy Website for Teachers provides background information and pupil activities, together with curriculum and web links covering :

Climate Change
Energy Efficiency
Renewable Energy
Descriptive lists of selected energy web links

Climate change has important implications for the health and welfare of future generations. This should be reflected in the education that young people receive through their curricula.

The Sustainable Energy Website for Teachers will help educators of 7 to 14 year-olds with their work across the curriculum and especially when dealing with energy topics in Science and Geography.

Energy topics can also be a context for work in:


Literacy Numeracy	Citizenship Sustainable Development

It's getting warmer!

Recent UK summers are the warmest
on record.
There is an increased frequency of
severe weather world-wide.
The Arctic tundra is thawing.
Glaciers are shrinking rapidly.

All these events are linked by a rise in global temperatures.

All are symptoms of changes in the
world’s climate as a result of increased use of energy and the resultant emissions of carbon dioxide.

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