In many states, utilities work with NEED to provide home energy efficiency kits to students and their families. In the classroom, students learn about energy and principles of conservation and efficiency, then take the kits home and install efficiency measures in their homes. The ComEd Teacher Guide and Student/Family Guide has many lessons for learning about Energy Efficiency at Home.
Celebrate Energy Awareness Month by
learning more about how you use energy and how to make your
energy choices more energy efficient. Consider using these energy
efficiency tools to help reduce energy costs at home and at
school. Primary Student
Home Survey, Primary
Level School Survey, Intermediate
Level School Survey, and Secondary
School Survey.
The Saving Energy Expo was created to provide students with an expanded opportunity to learn about energy efficiency technologies while improving research and presentation skills. Similar to Energy Expo and Transportation Fuels Expo, this addition to the NEED portfolio leads students through research on efficiency technologies.
The NEED Project supports ENERGY STAR®'s 2009 Change a Light, Change the World Campaign. We've set a goal of 1,000 Pledges, which will save 282,000 kWh of energy and prevent 409,000 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions. Every light changed is a step in the right direction. Join us in making a difference, sign the Pledge today!
Download a new, expanded version of NEED's Change a Light Teacher's Guide (2.24mb pdf) which includes curriculum and activity ideas for implementing the Change a Light, Change the World Campaign in your classroom and community. Check out the Make a Cool Change Refrigerator/Freezing Recycling Teacher Guide and the Make a Clean Change Washer Recycling Guide!
Sign the Energy
Conservation Contract to pledge to be more efficient
about energy use at home and on the road!
Transportation
Fuels - The Future is Today and What
Car Will You Drive? help improve air quality, energy
efficiency and more. These Teacher Guides helps teachers and students
learn more about transportation fuels.
Thanks to support
from the U.S. Department of Energy, The National Association
of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, and 4-H, NEED
produced the Light and Lighting Module, a Heat and Heating Module, a Science of Motion Module and a Chemical Energy Module for
use in the 4-H Afterschool program.
