Energy for all! (Problem solving)

Students in each school worked in groups and studied and investigated the problem given: “You are a member of a philanthropic organization. Your team is located in a remote village that has no electricity. Your mission is to help community residents gain access to electricity to meet some of their basic daily needs.”
They followed the design process to propose as well as implement a solution (model construction).
Each group created their own ideas and implemented different solutions which at the end they evaluated them and presented them to their class.
The problem solving process engaged students in various activities.
Throughout their design process, students investigate several climate changes issues (utilizing the software “Focus on climate change”), they learn about the Greenhouse effect, the non-renewable energies and their drawbacks and suggest actions to combat climate change.
They also, investigated the ways of producing electricity with renewable and non-renewable energy, they saw the positives and the negatives of each procedure and they concluded on the energy issues, the global climate changes and the environmental pollution effects on human beings. The students learned to search information on the above subject throughout internet resources, demonstration-models of electrical energy production (solar panels, wind turbines models) and reading from the “focus on climate change” software/library. They also learn about the energy labels (eco labels, A++ energy etc.) and energy consumption of products (i.e. washing machines) and suggest ways of reducing energy consumption.