Renewable energy board games power student learning

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published October 1, 2018

Students at Kyneton Secondary College in Victoria have been learning about renewable and non-renewable resources by building board games.

Year 7 students Somere Gray and Abby Randle were quite chuffed with their board game creation.

Science learning area leader Cindy Bradford says the project came about as a way to gauge what knowledge the Year ...

This story appeared in the October 2018 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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