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The European
partnership worked together to assemble educational resources
representing the good practice in Energy Education from across
Europe. A selection of these were adapted and developed for the
Gloucestershire pilot project, these can be sourced through the
links below. The full list from the partnership is found on
www.feedu.org
Teacher File
Our ideas for linking
energy project work to the National Curriculum
An activity to explain
the environmental implications of energy use
Clear text explaining
energy issues and the renewables solution
Mind mapping game to
help think about hidden energy use. All materials can be
downloaded through the link to Centre for Sustainable Energy.
Game to teach about
the financial cost of energy and ways to be more efficient and
save money
A whole school
challenge to use more sustainable transport!
http://www.solarwindapplications.com/education.htm
SWEA have the solar
cube featured on this site available to lend to Gloucestershire
schools.
An interactive method
for pupils to monitor school energy consumption and emissions.
It will help them see the effects of their energy efficiency
programme.
Practical tips to
support energy diary work
A description of the
calculations the spreadsheet uses. For information…the
spreadsheet is set up to automatically do these calculations!!
With on-screen
instructions this makes calculating your energy consumption,
costs and carbon emissions easy. Summary sheets provide
information for comparison and fun facts and figures to help
pupils visualise the amount of carbon dioxide being produced.
Temperature
Monitoring Pack
Thermometer Cards
Activities linked to
the monitoring of school and classroom temperatures. Provides
good basis for data collection and presentation learning and
also provides material for persuasive writing and other work.
Thermometer cards specially designed for school use are
available from us,
[email protected] (while stocks last!).
School Energy
Policy
Action to reduce the
schools impact on the environment requires the co-operation of
all the building users. This document provides a basic template
for a policy agreed to by key members of staff and pupils. |