Chapter Energy - A CLIL-unit

In this CLIL unit year 7 & 8 students explore how countries like Australia and Germany create electricity. They investigate the consequences of our energy consumption for the earth, learn about the development of renewable energies and analyse ways to save energy.

Energy as a topic is particularly versatile, offering numerous points of contact. It provides students with the opportunity to deal with scientific as well as topical issues in German lessons. Energy issues include both physical principles - such as the transformation of energy and the conservation of energy - as well as topics such as renewable energy and climate change. The global problems related to energy production will shape our lives in the immediate future. Young people should be made aware of the pressing nature of this issue, and should be encouraged to think about it and discuss it in great detail.

The worksheets has these topics:
Das Arbeitsheft enthält diese Themen:
1. What is energy?
- Grammar exercises: Perfect tense, Past participle, "to be or to have"
2. Forms of energy
- Grammar exercise: Conjunctions, Sentences with because, Participles
3. Where does all the energy go?
- Grammar exercises: Pronouns, Definite articles
4. Energy is being transformed
- Auxiliary verbs
5. Energy carriers
- Grammar exercises: There is / It results in
6. Energy and environment
- Grammar exercises: Auxiliary verbs, Conjunctive II
7. Quiz and Project

Videos:
- Energie Dingsda
- Mein Purzelmännchen
- Klimaretter
- Screencast Energieträger