Educational outreach is the central focus for the visitor centre teams at Drax Power Station, North Yorkshire and also at our Scottish sites, Cruachan pumped-hydro Power Station and Tongland Power Station. Usually we show thousands of visitors around these sites each year explaining how we make electricity. However, whilst this is currently not possible, please find a number of videos, stories, activities and teaching resources created by our teams to help development during these unprecedented times. Our virtual tours have been split into two series, distinguishing between primary and secondary school levels, whilst our website articles are more suitable for older children, further education students and adults. We have also started an educational webinar program called ‘Drax In The Classroom’ for schools, please contact us for more information.
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- Drax Power Station
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- Cruachan Visitor Centre
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- Tongland Power Station
Drax Teaching Resources
We’ve produced both worksheets and information sheets covering elements of the Key Stage 2 Science Curriculum. Key Stage 3 Science Curriculum resources also coming soon.
Example PDF documents below:
Key Stage 2 documents can be found here:
- Changes of State [Information sheet]
- Changes of State [Worksheet]
- Components, Bulbs and Batteries [Worksheet]
- Conductors and Insulators [Information sheet]
- Electric or Not [Information sheet]
- Electric or Not [Worksheet]
- Marvellous Magnets [Information sheet]
- Marvellous Magnets [Worksheet]
- A Simple Series Circuit [Worksheet]
- Solids, Liquids and Gases [Information sheet]
- Solids, Liquids and Gases [Worksheet]
- Switches [Information sheet]
- Symbols for Simple Circuits [Information sheet]
- Terrariums [Information sheet]
- Volts, Bulbs and Brightness [Information sheet]
- The Water Cycle [Information sheet]
