FCHgo
FCHgo is a European project dedicated to fostering knowledge about fuel cell and hydrogen technology by delivering an educational model for schools. The project invites pupils and their teachers alike to discover the energy of hydrogen with innovative teaching materials and along inspiring activities in classrooms and beyond.
Sample resources you can find in FCHgo:
Introduction to Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Technology
What it is: For teachers and everyone interested in learning more about fuel cells and hydrogen, this comprehensive guide introduces the main principles of FCH technology, using simple language and pictures. The explanations exemplify the approach of FCHgo to teaching energy.
Key data: The document is about 30 pages.
Download the FCH introduction in English, German, Italian, Polish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Comprehensive teacher guides on FCHgo lessons
The FCHgo toolkit materials described in the following are part of a didactic concept for interactive lessons on energy and FCH developed by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, the Nicolaus Copernicus University Torun and the Technical University of Denmark. The content of the materials as well as the outline of the lessons are a result of many year’s research on the impact of using narrative and metaphors in teaching. The teacher guides below describe an exemplary educational path employing the FCHgo materials the best way possible.
Download the teacher guides below.
Teacher guide on FCHgo lessons for classes 3-4 in English, German, Italian, Danish, Polish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Teacher guide on FCHgo lessons for classes 5-6 in English, German, Italian, Polish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Teacher guide on FCHgo lessons for classes 7-8 in English, German, Italian, Polish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Teacher guide on FCHgo lessons for pupils age 13-17 years in English, German, Italian, Polish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Teaching materials for kids age 8-13
The Apple Story
What it is: A simple illustrated story about a small girl who experiences the magic transformation of blossom to fruit by observing how the tree uses water, air, and sunlight to let apples grow.
Learning objectives: Pupils learn about storage, transmission and transformation of energy.
How it works in lessons: The story is told by teachers and discussed and played out together with pupils; older students read the story themselves. With help of the story, pupils understand the analogy between energy transmissions from tree to human body via apples and from tank to motion in a car via fuel.
Age range: Suitable for all ages, in particular for ages 8 to 11.
Key data: The story is 10 pages long and comes with instructions for teachers. For telling and discussing the story about 1-1,5 hours are needed.
Download the Apple Story in English, German, Italian, Polish, Danish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Download the Apple Story Analysis guide for teachers in English, German, Italian, Danish, Polish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Water and Light
What it is: An interactive animated story of hydrogen, fuel cells, and energy. In this story, Bot, a postal services robot, makes use of hydrogen and fuel cells in order to deliver parcels across a mountain range.
Learning objectives: Pupils learn about storage and transmission of energy.
How it works in lessons: The story is played and discussed by teachers together with pupils; older students interact with the story themselves. Using animation in this form where chemicals are active as Forces of Nature, is a new element in science communication that helps the pupils understand the processes of electrolysis, producing hydrogen and running the fuel cell where hydrogen powers electricity.
Age range: Suitable from age 10.
Visit and play the Water and Light in English.
Download the Water and Light story brief description in English.
Download the Water and Light story narration in English, Italian.
The Perpetuum Mobile movie
What it is: A short, animated movie telling the story of an inventor trying to create a perpetuum mobile consisting of solar cells, pumps, water wheel, and generator. Imaginative ‘spirits’ – funny looking figures – represent forces of nature carrying energy from interaction to interaction. The movie was developed by artist Marion Deichmann and is used within FCHgo lessons to demonstrate the principle of energy to children.
Learning objectives: Pupils are introduced to the principles of energy transformation, different forms of energy and the law of energy conservation.
How it works in lessons: Pupils watch the video and analyze together with their teacher the transformation and exchange of energy between the spirits. They learn the name of the ‘spirits’ and observe that the system only works, if energy is sustained by the sun and heat can escape to the environment.
Age range: Suitable from age 10.
Key data: The video is 5:14 minutes long and originally in German with English, Italian and Polish subtitles. Instructions for teachers are provided; screening and discussing the video takes about 0,5-0,75 hours.
Watch the movie in English here and download the Italian and Polish version
See the narration text of the movie in English, Danish, Polish
Energy role plays
What it is: Ideas for different role-plays in which students act as energy carriers (sun, electricity, heat, hydrogen) and film their performances.
Learning objectives: With this playful approach pupils experience natural and technical principles with their own bodies and are able to reproduce energy processes themselves.
How it works in lessons: Pupils write a script for their own energy story; they dramatize for example the processes happening in a fuel cell car. This playful approach allows them to experience natural and technical processes with their own bodies.
Age range: Suitable for all ages.
Key data: The material comprises instructions for teachers and a worksheet for pupils. Implementation of plays with recording and screening in class is for 1,5-2,5 hours/lessons.
Download the role play guide for teachers in English, German, Italian, Danish, Polish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Analysis of Models/Toys
What it is: Kids examine and compare different toys respective models, for example, a dynamo torch (crank flashlight) and a fuel cell model car, using the work sheet provided by FCHgo. Teachers also receive instructions for the lesson.
Learning objectives: Through comparing different models pupils learn about their functioning, similarities and differences, while training their analytical skills.
How it works in lessons: Pupils explore each model in groups and describe how it works, before comparing the two models. They describe analogies and differences of processes that are going on in the two models.
Age range: Suitable for all ages.
Key data: The material comprises instructions for teachers and a worksheet for pupils. Models must be provided by schools. The model analysis takes about 1 hour.
Download the teacher guide for this activity in English, German, Italian, Polish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Download the toy work sheet for pupils for this activity in English, German, Italian, Polish
Energy playing cards
What it is: A set of playing cards to ‘play through’ energy chains in games of domino and speed. The set contains cards for every main energy carrier, including hydrogen. Every card displays a specific intensity to indicate the energy content of the carrier.
Learning objectives: Pupils learn to correctly identify energy carriers and “exchangers” and deepen their understanding for the process of energy exchange, transformation and storage.
How it works in lessons: Kids play different card games, e.g. domino or find the energy carrier, according to instructions and learn about the way energy carriers and exchangers are interconnected.
Age range: Suitable from age 10.
Key data: 15 energy carrier cards; introducing and playing with the cards is for 1 hour.
Download the playing cards in English, German, Italian, French, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Download the card game rules in English, German, Italian, Danish, Polish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Kids Lab for pupils age 10-14
What it is: A set of instructions, worksheets, poster, cards and teacher’s guides for experiments with young pupils.
Learning objectives: Pupils learn to correctly identify the forces of Nature and deepen their understanding for the process of energy exchange, transformation and storage.
How it works in lessons:The teacher explains the experiments and pupils conduct them together in small teams. Teachers can work with decks of cards and/or let the kids draw and write. After working with experimental equipment, students are asked to put cards in the order they believe forces act in the system investigated, or they write and draw the experimental setup and the results from their experiments.
Age range: Suitable from age 10 to 14.
Key data: Poster and cards of forces of nature cards; the lab can run from 4 to 8 hours.
Download the teacher guide for this activity in English, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Download the forces of nature cards in English, German, Italian
Download the forces of nature poster in English, German, Italian
Download the guide to the potato battery experiment in English, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Download the worksheet of the potato battery experiment in English, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Download the guide to the solar cell experiment in English, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Download the worksheet of the solar cell experiment in English, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Download the guide to the fuel cell experiment in English, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Download the worksheet of the fuel cell experiment in English, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
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