Lowestoft Energy Challenge
Two schools and a college from Lowestoft implement energy saving techniques into their learning environments.
Poplars Primary School have benefited from a visit from the Green Energy Machine and now have a team of energy monitors, and Denes High School focuses on energy-saving workshops to make others aware of the importance of energy saving activities.
Students from Lowestoft College look into the use of biofuel in cars and enter a competition to gain funding for to make their college more energy compliant.
The determined pupils relay their messages to one another in alternative ways, all hoping to make their environment more energy efficient.
Read a review of this video on the Teacher Training Resource Bank site.
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Facebookchribell on 25 November 2009
In response to Terry Whyte's review - we would have liked to have delved more deeply into the case studies but the durat ...
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- Duration: 15:00 minutes
- Published: 19 June 2008
- Licence information for Lowestoft Energy Challenge
- Next showing on TV: 22:30 11 February 2010
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TeacherNet: Enterprise Education
NESTA: Young People and Innovation The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts which was co-initiator of the Lowestoft Energy Challenge
Make Your Mark Campaign helping young people to make their ideas happen
WEEE Man: Education - Learning Download an activity pack for KS2 and KS3 children to support a WEEE man visit
Denes High School Website for school participating in the Lowestoft Energy Challenge
Lowestoft College Website for college participating in the Lowestoft Energy Challenge
Poplars Primary School Website for school participating in the Lowestoft Energy Challenge
Enterprise Lowestoft Community Interest Company dedicated to raising aspirations and enterprising outlooks in the young people of Lowestoft, Waveney district and countrywide
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Review25 November 2009 - 15:08In response to Terry Whyte's review - we would have liked to have delved more deeply into the case studies but the duration was only 15 minutes and with three educational establishments to cover it was a challenge in that time frame!
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energy challenge24 February 2009 - 21:19the main thing is that it brought all ages together
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Lowestoft energy challenge11 July 2008 - 17:53well done to all the students for being sucessful in their bids. The concept of getting all ages involved proves that education about renewable energy resources works.
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