KEEP Workshops are back! Join PA DEP for a free teacher workshop focusing on energy education! Attendees will learn:
- All about the Energy Pathway in the Eco-Schools USA program
- Where to get energy data and resources
- How to use your building as a teaching tool
- Ways to teach about alternative/renewable energy and fuels
- How to assist a student energy team in measuring their successes
AND take home instruments and curated activity and lesson plans to use at your school!
Workshop Agenda
8:00 Registration
8:30 Welcome and Workshop Overview
8:45 Icebreaker
9:00 Eco-Schools USA & Energy: General Energy Data Resources, Green/Eco-Schools Overview, Portfolio Manager, Energy Pathway
10:00 Conducting an Energy Audit: Activity
10:45 Renewable Energy and Transportation Fuels: Catching the Wind Activity
12:15 Lunch (brown bag)
12:45 Sustainability Tour: Building as Teaching Tool/Connections
1:45 Writing Your Action Plan: Planting Trees for Energy Conservation, Action Plan
2:45 New Energy Technologies – CHP/Batteries
3:00 Grant Opportunities and Resources
3:15 KEEP Kits/Evaluations/Act 48 Credits/Adjourn