The Heat and Chill workshop is perfect for high school students in British Columbia, aligning with the province’s focus on clean energy and environmental stewardship. Through hands-on activities and real-world applications, students gain practical knowledge about energy efficiency and sustainable heating and cooling systems for different kinds of homes.
These workshops are fully subsidized for Grade 8-12 classes in British Columbia for the 2024/2025 school year.
In Heat and Chill workshops, high school students will:
- Complete experiments to see how heat moves or gets lost through conduction, radiation, and convection.
- Use tools to find areas in buildings that affect how much energy is used.
- Learn about energy efficiency practices.
- Explore how using less energy can help the environment and save money.
This workshop is currently only available to schools in British Columbia.
Workshop curriculum links:
British Columbia’s Education Curriculum
| Big Idea
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Energy can be transferred as both a particle and a wave. |
| Content | Types and effects of electromagnetic radiation. |
| Curricular Competency | Observe, measure, and record data (qualitative and quantitative), using equipment, including digital technologies, with accuracy and precision.
Make predictions about the findings of their inquiry. |
| Big Idea | Electric current is the flow of electric charge. |
| Content | Types and effects of electromagnetic radiation. |
| Curricular Competency | Analyze cause-and-effect relationships. |
| Big Idea | Energy is conserved, and its transformation can affect living things and the environment. |
| Content | Law of conservation of energy.
Transformation of energy. |
| Curricular Competency | Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence. |
| Big Idea
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Earth materials are changed as they cycle through the geosphere and are used as resources, with economic and environmental implications. |
| Content | Environmental implications of geologic resources within B.C. |
| Curricular Competency | Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data |
| Big Idea
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Energy is found in different forms, is conserved, and has the ability to do work. |
| Content | Conservation of energy; principle of work and energy, electric circuits, Ohm’s law thermal equilibrium and specific heat capacity generation and propagation of waves properties and behaviours of waves. |
| Big Idea
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Human practices affect the sustainability of ecosystems.
Humans can play a role in stewardship and restoration of ecosystems. |
| Content | Human actions and their impact on ecosystem integrity |
| Big Idea
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Human activities cause changes in the global climate system.
Living sustainably supports the well-being of self, community, and Earth. |
| Content | Impacts of global warming.
Mitigation and adaptations. Personal choices and sustainable living. |
Fees
These workshops are fully subsidized for Grade 8-12 classes in British Columbia for the 2024/2025 school year.
Program Funders
Provincial Sponsor
