Energy Card Sort

Play this Only Connect style game to get students thinking about themes around energy and the sun

Cut out the 16 cards and lay them on the table.
Sort them out into 4 groups by working out the connections. All the connections have something to do with Energy and the Sun.
There will be exactly 4 cards in each group.

For example:

case, mark, shop, worm

fountain, pig, marker, highlighter

Number 1 is the easiest, number 4 the hardest. Be careful though, there might be some red herrings!

If you get stuck, check out the ‘cheat sheet’ which will tell you what the connections are.

Find a number of card sorts based on the BBC4 programme Only Connect, all based around energy and the sun in the document provided.

This resource was developed by The Solar Spark at the University of Edinburgh.

The Solar Spark - solar energy resources

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Hand battery
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Anodising titanium
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Solar technology
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Solarcasts (Faces of Chemistry)
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The impact of solar power
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The Tyndall effect
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Solar cells and circuits
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Make a Grätzel cell
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Make your own spectroscope
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Solar cell in a drinking straw
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Solar cells and absorption
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Chlorophyll fluorescence
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Energy Card Sort
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Mixing colours
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