Energy and Sustainability (and their energy investigator “Watts’on”!) carry out a programme of interactive workshops at primary schools across the Highlands to raise awareness of important global issues.
Workshop Details
Climate change and energy efficiency
Intended Audience: Secondary School Pupils
The objectives of this workshop are to provide children with an understanding of global warming and how saving energy can help towards reducing their impact on the environment. They are also introduced to renewable energy and the contribution that they can make to reduce our use of fossil fuels.
The workshop cover the following topics:
- Climate change and its causes
- What we can do to prevent climate change
- Energy efficiency
- Renewable energy
- How to save energy in the school
- Interactive energy survey
This fun workshop offers a unique fun way to promote and highlight the energy efficiency challenges to pupils about their behaviour in using energy both in school and home environment.
A number of schools have been identified for renewable energy technologies as a direct result of this initiative.
Renewables
Intended Audience: Secondary School Pupils
The Energy and Sustainability team can also demonstrate through the use of small scale demonstrators various renewable technologies such as wind and solar energy. This can be accompanied with a short presentation on renewable energy and how they can contribute to reducing CO2 emissions.
If you are interested in having a presentation made at your school please contact the Energy and Sustainability team for more information.
Activities / Competitions
Energy and Sustainability hold regular competitions and quizzes to engage with schoolchildren. Events to date have included:
Photo competitions with primary & secondary school pupils
Some winning entries…
Word-searches
Can you find the hidden words?
…watch this space for future events.
Feedback
“presentation was fun and the characters made the topic more interesting and the children were motivated to save energy” (Alvie Primary School)
“Subjects were very relevant to pupils and presentation was pitched at the right level. Thanks you” (South Primary School)
“Extremely well organised and would recommend to other schools” (Strathpeffer Primary School)
“Encouraged lots of interaction from the class and made the pupils think about the carbon footprint of the school” (Broadford Primary School)
“Presentation fitted in well with the ‘eco’ message we are trying to convey to the pupils” (Inshes Primary School)
“The presentation encouraged lots of interaction from the class”
(Kiltearn Primary School)