Session Title:
Light a School
Topic:
Teaching Group:
Date:
Duration: 1 hour
Number of students:
Aim of Session: To inspire interest in global issues and to motivate students to lead an enter-prising fund-raising
campaign in their school.
Learning outcomes – most pupils will:
1 Understand the positive impact solar energy can have for children in Africa through learning about SolarAid’s
work.
2 To motivate students to take action and recognise their ability to contribute to positive change through
establishing achievable but substantial goals.
3 To begin planning an innovative and enterprising school campaign through offering a creative environment in
which to explore ideas.
4 To develop skills in confidence, communication and group work through encouraging students to take
ownership of the project.
Assessment of outcomes:
1
Presenting back information in Activity 2.Answering the questions in the plenary quiz.
2
Accepting the challenge to raise £1000 and demonstrating empathy with other peoples situations in Activity 2.
3 Contributing to group and class brainstorms in Activity 3 and beginning to plan their campaigns on the
worksheet.
4
Expressing their ideas in pair and share, groups or during class presentations and discussions.
Subject specific language/key words:
Solar, kersosene lamp, campaign, fund-raising, Africa, photovoltaic,
Resources and equipment:
Classroom:
Blu-tack
Videos x 2
Rays & Clouds
Blindfolds
Solar panel quiz
Power-Point
Build a campaign sheet
Timing
Outdoors:
Solar lamps
Kerosene lamps
Case study cards
Session leader activity
Student activity
Introduction
Watch Meet John
5 minutes
Introduce ourselves
What SolarAid do and where: clean,
renewable energy for the world’s poorest
people in Africa.
Aim for the session: understand benefits
of solar and plan a school campaign.
Incentive: to see Finn’s video!
Monitoring and
assessment
Activity 1
15 minutes
Imagine the lights went out for an hour,
day, week, year – what if they never came
back?
Blindfold Activity – try and
complete a piece of homework
with no light.
The world by night satellite picture –
2billion people have no access to
electricity.
Power point – satellite pictures
and Eliza.
Advantages and disadvantages of solar
energy and kerosene lamps.
Some students to help
demonstrate solar lamps and
kerosene lamps.
Answering
questions in
discussion.
Divide into groups of 5/6. Each
group takes a title: Health,
Education,
Finance,
or
Environment.
Must complete their rays &
clouds according to their
category and add to the
sunshine and lamp on the wall.
Contribution to
group discussion &
task.
Groups should present back
the advantages (rays) and
disadvantages (clouds) they
recorded for their category.
Presenting
information back to
the class.
Quickly pair and share and
then do a class brainstorm for
the first two questions.
Contribution to pair
& share and class
discussion.
Split into groups and distribute
one people category to each
group (e.g. Yr 1, parents, MP).
Complete the Light a School
Campaign worksheet.
Completing the
worksheet and
taking part in group
planning.
Empathise with the
difficulty of the
situation.
Clarify the huge problem but also the
exciting solution.
Activity 2
25 minutes
(divided
between
planning &
presenting)
Meet John: a case study. Re-cap the
character from the film.
Clarify terminology e.g. Finance.
Distribute Rays & Clouds, solar
kerosene lamps amongst groups.
&
Encourage groups to be creative e.g use
a tableaux, drama, quick poster, song or
short presentation when feeding back to
the class.
Completing the rays
& clouds.
Activity 3
20 minutes
Building a Fund-raising Campaign
Goal = £1000 to Light a School.
1) Who can help us?
2) How will we reach each group?
3) What different information might each
group want to know?
4) When could you carry out these
ideas?
Share ideas with the class if
time.
Plenary
10 minutes
Re-cap learning of the day and celebrate
their new solar knowledge as
demonstrated by the quiz!
Re-cap their goals and the positive
change they’re contributing to.
Show Finn’s video!
Quiz: Class teams – Sun
Shine! vs Sun Bright!
Answering
questions.
Evaluation