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
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!
Solar Wind Applications - Education
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.
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!).
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.