Lesson 07: Audits
Lesson Description: Students choose an audit system, analyze their school buiding, and report results to administrators and the school board.
Duration: 5 hours
Lesson Description: Students choose an audit system, analyze their school buiding, and report results to administrators and the school board.
Duration: 5 hours
Lesson Description: Demonstrate and train students on all pieces of equipment in the benchmarking kit and explain how to analyze the results.
Duration: 1 hour
Lesson Description: Students will use scientific tools to conduct an engaging investigation on thermal energy.
Duration: 1 hour
Lesson Description: The initial walkthrough allows students to observe current energy practices, look for opportunities (lights and computers turned off appropriately, HVAC vents unobstructed, compliance with any current school energy-related policies), take notes of things to return to with equipment to analyze, etc. Students will be able to talk with the facility manager to learn more about the building operation, improvements that have already been made or are planned at the school, issues they have identified that haven’t been resolved, etc.
Lesson Description: Students will recognize and interpret patterns in electricity and natural gas utility bills. Students will become aware of how people use energy and start to develop strategies for managing and conserving energy in their school.
Duration: 1 hour
Lesson Description: Explore energy forms and types! After a quick demonstration by the teacher, students will team up in pairs or small groups and rotate from one energy station to another to learn about different forms of energy and energy transformations. After students are finished, they will discuss what they learned with the rest of the class. If time allows, they will participate in a card sort activity to test their knowledge.
Duration: 1 hour
Lesson Description: This is a lesson on the introduction of energy, how energy flows, energy efficiency, and the SW Power Pool. Brief introductions of who is presenting and Kansas Energy Program (KEP) at K-State. The is made possible through a partnership with the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC). The KCC is the state agency that regulates energy and utilities, among other things. Through our partnership, KEP is able to provide energy education to K-12 schools and small businesses.
Explore scientific equipment while using critical thinking with our Energy Audit Breakout Room kit! Students will examine evidence and contribute to creating solutions. Can you escape in time?!
Check out our Lesson Slideshow: Breakout/Escape Room: Energy Auditing.
Students will use scientific tools to conduct an investigation on thermal energy. Discuss conductors and insulators, state your claim, evidence, and reasoning and tell us the most efficient type of insulation material from your experiment!
Resource: Teacher Slideshow
**This kit is checked out and not available until Spring 2024.**
This kit can be used with our Energy Stations Lesson on our Activities and Curricula page as well as within our K-12 Energy Benchmarking Project.