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Skills Miner Home Energy

Inspire the next generation of engineers to solve sustainability challenges in the home.

Skills Miner Home Energy

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!

Capacity

5-30 students

Learning outcomes

  • Improve engagement, interest or enjoyment in STEM subjects

  • Improve attainment and progress in STEM subjects

  • 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

Topics

  • Animals including humans
  • Materials
  • Electricity
  • Earth and space
  • Structures

Working scientifically

Whichever curriculum your school follows, pupils should have the opportunity to carry out practical investigations in science that help them to develop their scientific skills. This experience builds the following enquiry skills:

  • Asking questions
  • Making predictions
  • Setting up tests
  • Observing and measuring
  • Recording data
  • Interpreting and communicating results
  • Evaluating

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:

  • Aiming high - the ability to set clear, tangible goals and devise a robust route to achieving them.

  • Problem solving - the ability to find a solution to a complex situation or challenge.

Good for a career in...

  • Electronics
  • Energy
  • Environment
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