Description of the excursion:
This excursion explains how a passive house works and, in addition to the mathematical properties of a passive house, explains the concepts of thermal insulation and heat loss in a clear and hands-on way using the shape of the building.
After a tour of the building, the rooms are assigned using a head geometry task, which allows the pupils to consolidate their room-position relationships. They then use cube models to explore the relationship between surface area and volume and understand its importance for saving energy in a passive house.

Subject: Mathematics, 5th/6th grade

Thematic links to the curriculum: Measuring and estimating lengths, areas and volumes; recognising and describing spatial structures

Thematic prerequisites: Knowledge of the geometric solids cube and cuboid

Location: Oldenburg, Kneippstraße 14

Duration: 90 minutes

Maximum group size: School class

Registration: via the excursion form

Institution: Kreyenbrück Integrated Comprehensive School

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