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From Mystery to Must-Have

Entrepreneurs have incredible creativity and unique perspective – they can turn an everyday, ordinary object and turn it into a product that no one thought of before. In this activity, stretch your learners’ creativity as they take a random mystery object and transform it into a must-have item for customers – just like a real entrepreneur!
*French resource included as attachment

• Kindergarten
• Grade 1
• Grade 2

Classroom-Sized Monopoly

This classic board game has been reinvented into a classroom-sized activity, including many New Brunswick tourist attractions! Learners will work together to plan a budget and make critical financial decisions.

• Grade 3
• Grade 4
• Grade 5

Home Field Advantage

Ever wonder what it would be like to have a professional sports team in your hometown? Using their entrepreneurial spirit, learners will be given the opportunity to dream, design, and map out the details of a brand-new team to pitch to their peers. Dig out your jerseys and pennants – sports fever is about to hit your classroom!
*French resource included as attachment

• Grade 3
• Grade 4
• Grade 5

Eggs Away!

Prepare to get messy! This inquiry-based learning activity tests learners’ entrepreneurial spirit as they create, construct, re-adjust, and develop a solution to an age-old problem for Humpty Dumpty and his love of walls.
*French resource included as attachment

• Kindergarten
• Grade 1
• Grade 2

Solar Oven Challenge

In this challenge, students will design, build and test a solar oven to be used by NASA in an upcoming trip to the moon.

The moon does not have any wind but it does have an abundance of sunlight. Harnessing that renewable resource will be essential to establishing a colony on the moon.
*French Resources Available As Attachments

• Grade 6
• Grade 7
• Grade 8

Energy at School

In this lesson, students are introduced to where energy comes from and explore how it’s used at school.

This is the first of three lessons to investigate school energy use and plan actions to promote energy conservation. For more lesson ideas, visit FortisBC Energy Leaders

*French Resources Included as Attachments

• Grade 3
• Grade 4
• Grade 5

Solar Boat Activity

Students will engineer custom paddles and propellers and use the solar power to create a boat that can move in the sun.

Students will explore in depth how solar power turns radiant energy into electrical energy, then into mechanical energy. Students will learn the variables that affect solar panels and the factors that influence the performance of paddles and propellers, ultimately building a solar boat that can transport the most weight.

• Grade 6
• Grade 7
• Grade 8

Energy Efficiency and Conservation

Students learn how energy is used, new energy efficient technologies, and ways to conserve energy at home and at school.

Youth will explore the concepts of insulation and conduction; interpret the energy information on the name plates of electrical appliances; measure the electric power consumption of electrical appliances; compare energy related properties of different types of light bulbs.

• Grade 10

Geothermal Challenge

Students will design a model of a geothermal exchange mechanism to raise or lower the temperature of a solution. The success of the model will be determined by the difference in temperature between the two containers.
*French Resources Available as Attachments

• Grade 7

Energy Career Excursion

This activity aims to help students become acquainted with careers that exist in the energy industry.

• Grade 9
• Grade 10
• Grade 11
• Grade 12

Design a Net-Zero Energy Classroom

Energy is used to power computers, TVs, fans and most electrical appliances. Essentially, everything we plug into the wall uses energy. We also use energy for cooking and other everyday tasks. Can you imagine what life would be like without easy access to energy in our buildings, homes and schools?

• Grade 3
• Grade 4
• Grade 5

Mission Possible Energy Challenge

Mission Possible is a cooperative learning activity in which students evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the energy sources used to generate electricity.

Students must develop energy plans for a fictitious country and present their plans to the class. Several options with different levels of difficulty are provided for the activity. The activity includes a limited number of variables and is not intended to be a perfect reflection of the realities of the global or national economies.

• Grade 10
• Grade 11
• Grade 12