👣 Learning journeys for "Helping ourselves and helping others"

Posing this hinge question...

How can we work together to not demand too much?

may provoke responses which enable you to allow children to engage with exploring the importance of the idea of the power of appliance to energy paid for at one of three levels.

Teaching ideas from different levels can of course be introduced as appropriate to each child's learning journey.

A particular tripwire to bear in mind

⚠️ prediction uncertain

Keep this in mind as you guide children through the selected level.

Shallow

🩺 Children may struggle to appreciate the power envelope available and to separate this from the total energy draw down over the day.

If I don't demand power, there is some left for everyone else.

My bills are lower if I use less.

We could just make more.

🔎 To help children see what they think and to develop those thoughts you might promote discussions using the following set of thoughts as prompts for children to agree or disagree with.

Power is for now only — you can't store it up for later.

Energy is what you pay for — it all adds up.

The energy has to come from somewhere & we can run out.

Here are some approaches to extend exploration at this starter level.

🧭 starting to explore "Helping ourselves and helping others"

Digging

🩺 Children will begin to appreciate the power envelope available and to separate this from the total energy draw down over the day. They might struggle to use this difference to decide how these goods might be distributed.

There is only so much power to share out.

I could spread my costs over different times.

Whenever you make a demands, you pay. So why delay what you want to do?

🔎 To help children see what they think and to develop those thoughts you might promote discussions using using the following set of thoughts as prompts for children to agree or disagree with.

How can we share the power out fairly?

How would spreading out demand help everybody?

What can we do to reduce demand?

Here are some approaches to extend exploration at this deeper level.

🧭 a deeper exploration of "Helping ourselves and helping others"

In depth

🩺 Children will appreciate the power envelope available and separate this from the total energy draw down over the day, and discussions will show how this might be distributed.

I could choose to demand power at a different time from my friends — that's good sharing.

The power that's available can only be shared so many ways: if I demand lots now someone else misses out.

We could just build more power stations.

🔎 To help children see what they think and to develop those thoughts you might promote discussions using using the following set of thoughts as prompts for children to agree or disagree with.

Sharing power out by demanding power at different times would mean we need fewer power stations.

Over a whole day my use might be the same, but I could help everybody out by thinking about when.

Energy is what you pay for, power is what you deny from moment to moment.

Here are some approaches to extend exploration at depth.

🧭 exploring "Helping ourselves and helping others" at depth