2nd March - Year 10 Group Research Exercise

As I mentioned yesterday, you will be doing your work today entirely online on the science forum, and hence you SHOULD have created yourself a profile so that you can post on there already.

If you haven't, you will need to do that before you begin, which will take about 5 minutes. You were told to do this yesterday, so if you haven't done so, and you don't know how, you will need to ask someone else in your group to help you.

Each group will be researching 2 different topics. The topics are:

Hydroelectric power

Tidal Energy

Wind Energy

Wave Energy

Geothermal Energy

Solar Energy

Biofuels

Saving energy

Fossil Fuels

Nuclear Fuels

There will be five groups that I assign (no you're not working with whoever you like) and each group will have 2 headings to research between them.

In your books, on pages 86-89, you have the bare minimum of information on these topics, but your task is to scour the internet and find out relevant information about all of these topics and present them to the class on the forum in a form that they can understand.

When you present information on the internet you must be aware of how it is set out and may need to consider a number of factors, like layout and structure of your information so that when you all post your information it doesn't turn into a big jumbled mess.

All of these topics are MUCH more indepth than the book lets on. For example you may want to look at the present state of each type of energy resource, how efficient it is, examples of where they are being used in the world at the moment, the history and development of each type of resource or the profits that can be made by each type.

This is not simply a cut and paste exercise, as every pupil can post on every other site and ask questions and the chances are I will be posting on the group sites and asking questions to see if you REALLY know what you're talking about or not.

So the task is pretty complex.

1 - you look up a good amount of information in your group on the subjects I set you

2 - you go and check out the other groups sites and test that they know their stuff too

3 - H/W - For homework you will be writing summaries in your books of each of the different types of energy resources, using the information gathered by the all of the groups. It must be at least 2 pages long.

So now it's up to you to get collecting and to start posting on the forum.