Renewable Energy Sources
📋 What it is
Renewables — solar, wind, hydro, geothermal — refill naturally and don’t run out like fossil fuels.
🗣️ Coach says
Renewable sources naturally replenish: sunlight (solar), moving air (wind), flowing water (hydro), and Earth’s heat (geothermal). They don’t run out and produce little or no pollution while generating. Their challenge is that some (sun, wind) aren’t constant — which is why storage matters.
🧠 Memory hook
Renewables (solar/wind/hydro/geothermal) refill naturally + clean. Challenge: some aren’t constant.
😂 Giggle
What did the nuclear reactor say on its day off?
"I need to cool down — I've been under too much pressure!"
😲 Whoa!
Enough sunlight hits the Earth in ONE HOUR to power all of human civilisation for a whole year — the challenge is capturing and storing it.
✅ Quick check: What makes an energy source "renewable"?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
It naturally replenishes and doesn’t run out (sunlight, wind, flowing water, Earth’s heat).
Renewables are naturally replenished sources.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Spot a renewable near you (solar panel, wind turbine, a dam) — power that never runs out.