Be cool and save energy at school!
There are many fun ways for you to help save electricity in your school. Teach your friends and classmates how to form energy clubs, hang up posters and generally make a difference.
Ask your teacher for permission to start an Energy Club at your school. At the meetings, you can discuss ways that your school can conserve energy. You could also check on the progress of the whole school in terms of saving energy.
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Things to do:
- Write a letter to your community's newspaper to tell them about what your club is doing.
- Make sure that each class has at least one Energy Officer. This person will check on their classmates and see if they are turning off computers, lights, overheads, projection units and other electronic machines when they are not using them.
- Do an Energy Audit in your school. Walk around the building and look for ways that energy can be conserved.
- Write tips for saving electricity and put them in your school newspaper or newsletter. You could also read these tips during your school's announcements.
- Give a presentation about energy at a school meeting or event.
- Teach younger students what you are learning about the environment, energy and conserving electricity.
- Share energy information with your school through the use of the arts (music, art, dance and drama).
- Bring home information about energy conservation and energy efficiency.
- Make an educational display about energy, electricity and conservation for your school.
- Write a survey about energy awareness and give it out to staff and students in your school. Ask them if they turn off lights, computers, etc. when they leave the rooms and if they do other things to save electricity at school.
- Ask your principal to answer a survey about your school building regarding energy use, heating, cooling, lighting, etc.
- Keep all classroom and office doors closed to keep heat and air conditioning in the rooms.
- Keep lights off in rooms, hallways and bathrooms as much as possible before and after school.
- Turn the heat down after school and on weekends.
- Make energy savings posters to put up throughout your school. These posters will show the word 'OFF' with an arrow pointing down. Put these posters by light switches, computers, and TVs.
- Do an interview with energy professionals in your community and write about your interview in your school paper.
- Run a contest between classrooms to keep track of the amount of energy savings that each classroom achieves. Make graphs of the results and post them in the hallways.
- Ask your principal if landscaping could be done if necessary. Landscaping should be done in appropriate locations so that your school could be more energy efficient. An example would be to plant trees that could shade the rooms on the sunniest side of the building.