7. Sustainability at UWC UWC was founded to address the threat of conflicts between nations Today, unsustainable and inequitable use of natural resources is as serious a threat However, sustainability as UWC is often “tagged on”
8. Sustainability at UWC One way of introducing the topic at UWC is to have modules related to sustainability “tagged on” to existing IB subjects e.g. teaching renewable energy as a module in physics, or sustainability as part of design and technology
10. Sustainability at UWC Our proposal is to teach elements of natural science (esp. physics), environmental science and social science (esp. economics) through the subject of Renewable Energy Technology Sustainable technology is at the core, not tagged on!
22. This is how we teach science today (IB Physics – as I remember it):
23. In the classroom – IB Physics today A mass of m = 5 kg is lifted up h = 20 m - By how much did the potential energy increase?
24. This is how we could teach it in Renewable Energy Technology:
25. A village in Nepal wants to use a stream with a flow rate of 5 l/s and a drop of 20 m to produce electricity.
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30. Inter-UWC Exchange Imagine Atlantic College builds a wind turbine as a CAS activity, documents the activity (video, data logging etc.), and exchanges the material…