The Solar for Schools Education App delivers all it set out to deliver when it was first created in 2020\. It was designed using geo-functions on mobile phones to provide contextual/experiential learning that enabled pupils who were not in school to take learning 'journeys' and discover information about energy, environment, electricity, and efficiency. The aim was to deliver the Learn-Act-Share place and project-based ESD experience to students who could not access computers. It was created to be engaging and link to KS3 core curriculum learning. But teachers occasionally faced with teaching a topic that requires additional research to help extend their own knowledge and skills before they present to students. This is daunting when teaching a complex topic, such as Education for Sustainable Development or Climate Change. Our App and teacher support, will provide teachers with all the scientific knowledge and data they need to teach and progress each lesson with expertise and confidence. Our project is designed to refine the learning and to enable teachers to deliver education in an innovative way that they can track and monitor. A "back-end" development phase is required for schools to make this a teaching opportunity that will help teachers deliver learning about climate change in a way that links to the curriculum. Teachers need to be able to see the completion of units, the results of test to monitor their students and improve their learning. Students gain points and rewards for improvement in learning about the environment and energy but back-end access for teachers is paramount to making the Solar for Schools learning journeys useful for homework and for students who may be studying out of school, so it is inclusive for all. The learning will also be translated to the web, so students using computers in ICT can perfect IT skills at the same time learn about decarbonisation, renewable energy sources and climate and, at the same time, improve their literacy and vocabularies.

The key objectives of the Solar Options for Schools Ltd project are: * To develop and test an innovative Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) learning mobile App, which will be using geo-functions on mobile phones to provide contextual/experiential learning, to encourage pupils to take learning 'journeys' about energy and sustainability and ultimately inspire a solar project at their school. This will deliver the Learn-Act-Share, place- and project-based ESD experience that does not exist in a digital form. * To assess the extent to which use of the App can change behaviours to lower carbon emissions. * To assess the extent to which our solar project development costs are reduced due to the App empowering students to take the first steps in developing a solar project, resulting in solar power becoming more accessible to schools, even those in the north where light levels are less than in the south. Solar Options for Schools Ltd will create and test a prototype of the App that is innovative by making ESD learning personalised, contextualised and digitised. Through its ability to deliver ESD, the App which will be on a mobile (rather than learning delivered by a computer or tablet) will give more disadvantaged children equal-access learning and skills and could help quicken the transition to a net zero carbon society by continuing to educate and inspire the next generation to live more sustainably at a time when face-to-face ESD is not possible. If ESD learning falters due to the pandemic, the education of many young people may also falter and decarbonisation will become even more difficult; another generation will not learn skills aimed at sustainable cohabitation. Transitioning to a net zero carbon society will take even longer. This experimental development project introduces a completely new approach to ESD, while responding to the limitations (and opportunities) that the COVID-19 pandemic has presented.