Energy efficient 'passive' homes | Geography - Save your Energy

Suitable for teaching 11 to 16s. This clip examines passive homes. Passive homes have no central heating but are much more energy efficient and generate bills approximately half that of a regular home. Subscribe for more Geography clips from BBC Teach on Thursdays when we have them in: http://bit.ly/BBCSubscribeTeach If you found this video helpful, give it a like. Share it with someone. Add the video to your own teaching playlists. Create an account, subscribe to the channel and create playlists for different age groups, sets and syllabuses. Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bbc_teach ===================== In this clip, we find out about passive homes with families from Stonehaven in Scotland. Passive homes have no central heating and generate bills approximately half that of other local residents. House building expert Thomas Froehlich explains why the passive houses are so energy efficient. They are built to face the sun and use the solar energy for heating, and are super-insulated and draught-free. People and household appliances generate heat (thermal energy) and this does not escape from the house. There is no letter box or cat flap to allow the heat to escape in this airtight house. Solar panels on the roof heat the water, and a log burner heats the home or the water when there is no sun. A heat recovery system draws cool air from the outside in and heats it using energy from within the house. This house focuses on conserving energy and not creating additional energy, which results in much smaller energy bills and less wastage overall. This clip is from the BBC series Save your Energy. Explore ways to make homes more energy efficient as Kate Humble challenges six households to cut the amount of energy they use by 30 per cent. For our Save Your Energy playlist: http://bit.ly/SYEnergy For our Biology playlist: http://bit.ly/BBCTeachBiology For our Geography playlist: http:/bit.ly/TeachGeography For Class Clips users, the original reference for the clip was p01k6sts. ===================== Teaching Biology, Geography or PSHE? Students could design their own ‘passive house’, using the ideas discussed to stimulate their own ideas. This could be used to create a poster to encourage people to try and conserve energy and reduce energy wastage. Students could be asked to work out how much their household energy bills are per year using numeracy skills. This clip will be relevant for teaching Biology, Geography or PSHE. This topic appears at KS3 and KS4/GCSE in OCR, Edexcel, AQA, WJEC in England and Wales, CCEA GCSE in Northern Ireland and SQA National 4/5 in Scotland. ===================== For more clips from other subjects at the BBC Teach YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/bbcteach More resources for teachers from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/teach More from BBC Learning Zone: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone More resources from BBC Bitesize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education ===================== Subscribe to create your own customised playlists, and get notified about our latest clips. As we have them, new videos will be uploaded on the following days: Mondays: Biology, Computer Science, Music, Religious Studies Tuesdays: Drama and Performance, English Language, Maths, Physical Education Wednesdays: Languages, Media Studies, Modern Studies and PSHE, Physics Thursdays: Art and Design, Chemistry, Geography, History Fridays: Business Studies, Design and Technology, English Literature, Early Years