Energy - Audits
Resources
Conducting a Home Energy Audit
 | Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Checklist - Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: Students will recognize and record energy conservation design features in buildings, become aware of and use energy conservation vocabulary, and conduct a home energy audit. |
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Energy Audit
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Experiment |
| Summary: As a class project students will learn how to conduct an eenrgy audit. They will state the problem, research and hypothesize or predict, gater data, make a conclusion, take action and make an assessment. In this lesson they will investigate human energy consum... |
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Energy Audit: What's Up in the Environment
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Glossary - School Projects |
| Summary: What's Up in the Environment projects are intended primarily for middle school students, but can be modified. They begin with an extensive description of the project’s objectives, standards, time and materials needed, computer requirements, and lists of on-lin... |
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Energy Efficiency World
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Experiment - Glossary - Web site |
| Summary: The Energy Efficiency World website is designed to educate 8- to 12-year-old students about energy, motivate them to make energy-saving behavioral changes, and encourage their families to do the same.
The site is geared for a range of interests and reading l... |
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Energy Savers: A Consumer Guide to Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Checklist - Fact sheet - List - Manual/Handbook - Web site |
| Summary: Learn what energy efficiency programs are going on in your state, and follow short cuts to technology information on appliances, all aspects of solar, geothermal, hydropower and wind energy. Use interactive evaluation tools, animations, fact sheets and more a... |
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Energy Saving Activities for Schools
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: List |
| Summary: A list of potential activities for middle school students for saving energy in schools. |
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Energy Savings Activity Lighting
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: Students will usa a light meter to measure the amount of light in their classroom and compare the energy use of a compact fluorescent bulb to an incandenscent bulb. |
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Energy Smarts Team Training Manual
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Checklist - Classroom Materials - Glossary - Manual/Handbook |
| Summary: The Energy Smarts Team members are energy conscious students students who want to save energy at school AND at home. Students in a classroom and their teacher have formed an energy team, selected students to monitor their building eacy day, at recess, lunch o... |
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Green Schools Energy Project: Step-by-Step Manual
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Checklist - Manual/Handbook - School Projects |
| Summary: This manual is designed for use by high school students. It is a 30-page pdf designed to engage students in a process of research about energy use within their schools. It provides step-by-step guidlines for implementing energy savings projects. |
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Home Energy Audit
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: A simple energy audit for home, but could be modified for schools. Students will identify the major construction, maintenance and design features that make a building energy efficient and will be able to explain energy saving steps to a homeowner. |
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Home Energy Audits
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Checklist - Classroom Materials - Web site |
| Summary: A home energy audit is the first step to assess how much energy your home consumes, and to evaluate what measures you can take to make your home more energy-efficient. An audit will show you problems that may, when corrected, save you significant amounts of mo... |
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Home Energy Saver: The first web-based do-it-yourself energy audit tool
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Checklist - Web site |
| Summary: This is a relatively user friendly process for conducting an energy audit. Begin with your zip code. Explore the drop down menus.
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Midddle School Home Energy Audit
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Checklist - Classroom Materials - Experiment - Fact sheet |
| Summary: Resources for learning how to conduct a home energy audit, with information for teachers and students on energy, work, power, energy production, energy efficiency and lessons. |
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School Building Energy Survey
Watt Does It Cost to Use It?
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: Students will become familiar with how electrical usage is counted and prices and they will evaluate representative household and school electricial items. |
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