Prince of Wales Primary School – Enfield
Our Eco-home/Greenhouse research project
In keeping with the STEMFAIR theme of ‘Change and Adapt,’ we decided to build an Eco-home inside a Greenhouse from the inspiration from two main places:
- The Eden Project in Cornwall, UK (which houses indoor plants, fruits and cacti) and
- A home inside a large glass erected greenhouse in Norway (Which keeps the house warm and protected but also helps the plants to thrive).
We created our own eco-home inside a greenhouse made up of wood and recycled plastic. We added solar panels out of paper to show how the panels work to trap the sun’s energy to convert this into electricity. This helps the house to have lower electricity bills. It helps with net zero emissions, lowering our carbon footprints as well as helping to address the earth’s greenhouse effect.
Over the last six weeks, in class we have researched information about how eco-homes and greenhouses work. We did lots of work on drawing our own eco-homes and answering questionnaires and doing our own research for homework, to find out more about key words that link to our project such as: sustainability, biodiversity, economical.
We enjoyed making our eco-home and greenhouse prototype out of recycled materials such as plastic and paper to show our understanding that we need to do our bit to help lower carbon footprints.
In our eco-home, we tried to demonstrate how useful it is to lower people’s electricity bills by using an example of a lamp light powered by converted solar panel energy.
In our greenhouse, we aimed to show how green we can be by the use of different plants that can flourish from the warmth of the greenhouse from the sun’s rays.
Please see some of our work below