Team Energy
These are the questions that we reflected on:
How do we get energy?
What is energy?
What is energy for?
What uses the most energy?
How does energy travel?
What uses the most energy?
How much energy do we use in an average day?
During our week in Chamonix we used different types of energy e.g. gas for heating the water we showered with and for cooking, electricity used to power the trains and cable cars we travelled on.
We realised that everything we have and use has needed energy at some point without us realising it. For example, the journals that we wrote in every day needed energy to produce them (cutting the trees down and transporting them to the factory to make the paper, cutting the paper down to size and stapling it together to make a book, transporting the journals to the shops to be sold, etc.).
We realised that we can’t stop people using altogether. Instead, we want people to only use the energy that they need, rather than wasting it.
What we decided we would do when we got back to school:
• turn off the computers in the ICT suite when they are not in use and encourage others to do the same
• turn off lights and projectors when we leave a room
• turn taps off
• check the electricity meter at school to get a reading and check it again at a later date to see how much energy we have been saving
• organise a day where the school learn outside as much as possible to save using energy in the classrooms and to raise awareness about issues surrounding the waste of energy
What we decided to do in our homes and communities:
• walk wherever possible to save energy by not using cars
• when bored, we will try to occupy ourselves with things that do not use energy all the time (e.g. playing outside instead of playing computer games)
• we will take shorter showers and turn the taps off when brushing our teeth so that we do not use as much energy to power the water
• encourage our neighbours to turn lights off when they go out
• organise a community event to raise awareness about saving energy, e.g. getting everybody in our street to turn their lights off for one hour on a particular evening
The future is in our hands…we can make it brighter.
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