Skills Miner Home Energy
Inspire the next generation of engineers to solve sustainability challenges in the home.
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Overview
Uncover engineering skills through gameplay with Enginuity's latest game!
Skills Miner Home Energy encourages the development of green engineering skills through a familiar domestic world that poses power and energy challenges.
Give your students a budget and challenge them to make their house the most energy efficient in the classroom.
They can choose between options they may know about such as low energy lighting and insulation, to technologies that might be new to them such as heat pumps or hydrogen boilers. Throughout the game they will discover the pros and cons of the decisions they make while learning about sustainability and climate change.
Can your students beat the best score of 81? If they do, get in touch with Enginuity because they'd love to meet the engineers of the future!
How does it work?
The Enginuity website explains each step in detail, including where to find the game file (you'll need to download the Minecraft Education Edition first), Teacher Notes and Worksheets. They also have video tutorials to get everyone up to speed before playing each game.
Details
- School subject
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- Technology/computing
- Design and technology
- Engineering
- Maths
- Physics
- Curriculum links
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- Biology: Material cycles and energy
- Physics: Energy
- Sciences - Planet earth: Energy sources and sustainability
- Sciences - Planet earth
- Physics: Energy transfer
- Sciences - Earth and universe: The environment and human influences
- Sciences - Forces and energy
- Group size
- Small groups, Whole class, Whole year group
- Participation level
- Hands-on
- Duration
- Multi-session - flexible
- Cost
- Free
- Location
- Online
Learning outcomes
- Improve engagement, interest or enjoyment in STEM subjects
- Attainment and progress
- Learning what the engineering workplace is like
- Develop engineering employability skills
- Improve awareness and aspirations for STEM-related study and careers
- Challenge stereotypes by showing the diversity of disciplines, people and skills involved in engineering
Frameworks
Gatsby benchmarks
The Gatsby benchmarks are a framework for good careers guidance for schools across all of England and in some areas across the rest of the UK. This experience helps your school to reach the following benchmarks:
- 2 - Learning from career and labour market information
- 3 - Addressing the needs of each pupil
- 4 - Linking curriculum learning to careers
- 5 - Encounters with employers and employees
- 6 - Experiences of workplaces
Essential skills
The essential skills every young person needs to succeed in education and their future career. Find out more at the Skills Builder Partnership. This experience builds the following skills:
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Enrichment framework
- 5 - An accessible and engagement enrichment offer
- 7 - An outcomes-focused enrichment offer
