Lessons & Activities: Grades 6 - 8
Alliance to Save Energy
Home Energy Audit
This lesson is part of emPowered at Home, an offshoot of our traditional PowerSave Schools program, and it is applicable to students from grades 3-12. In this lesson, students learn about the importance of energy conservation before conducting home lighting, appliance, and HVAC audits. In the lighting audit, they will identify the kinds of bulbs that their families use and calculate their savings if they use more efficient bulbs or reduce the hours per day that the lights are on. In the appliance audit, they will learn about ENERGY STAR appliances and energy vampires before doing a scavenger hunt to find them in their homes. They will then discuss whether to unplug energy vampires with their families. Finally, in the HVAC audit, they will about different HVAC systems, how to them work more efficiently, and calculate their savings if they adjust their thermostat a few degrees. They will share their findings from all three audits with their families to help their homes become more energy efficient and save money. All of the supporting materials are linked in the instructions in the Google Slides deck. Please contact me with any questions!
Click on "Home Energy Audit" above for link to Powerpoint or use files provided below.
This lesson is part of emPowered at Home, an offshoot of our traditional PowerSave Schools program, and it is applicable to students from grades 3-12. In this lesson, students learn about the importance of energy conservation before conducting home lighting, appliance, and HVAC audits. In the lighting audit, they will identify the kinds of bulbs that their families use and calculate their savings if they use more efficient bulbs or reduce the hours per day that the lights are on. In the appliance audit, they will learn about ENERGY STAR appliances and energy vampires before doing a scavenger hunt to find them in their homes. They will then discuss whether to unplug energy vampires with their families. Finally, in the HVAC audit, they will about different HVAC systems, how to them work more efficiently, and calculate their savings if they adjust their thermostat a few degrees. They will share their findings from all three audits with their families to help their homes become more energy efficient and save money. All of the supporting materials are linked in the instructions in the Google Slides deck. Please contact me with any questions!
Click on "Home Energy Audit" above for link to Powerpoint or use files provided below.
| empowered_at_home_energy_audit_public.pdf |
| hvac___lighting_audit_calculators.xlsx |
Hunterdon County Division of Parks & Recreation
Distance Learning Page
Explore videos, printable worksheets, and backyard scavenger hunts for inside or outside home learning. We are continuously updating this page so please check back frequently!
Explore videos, printable worksheets, and backyard scavenger hunts for inside or outside home learning. We are continuously updating this page so please check back frequently!
NEW JERSEY audubon
Certified Wildlife Habitat
Create a Certified Wildlife Habitat in any outdoor space by providing food, water, cover, places to raise young, and using sustainable practices. Pollinators and songbirds will enjoy the fruits of your labor.
Create a Certified Wildlife Habitat in any outdoor space by providing food, water, cover, places to raise young, and using sustainable practices. Pollinators and songbirds will enjoy the fruits of your labor.
Flippin' Logs with John Parke
Explore nature by doing an activity they you do in your own backyard. Create a feeling of environmental discovery!
Explore nature by doing an activity they you do in your own backyard. Create a feeling of environmental discovery!
Seed Balls!
Can you help wildlife and have fun doing it? YES! Join New Jersey Audubon to get your hands dirty creating seed balls! Learn now to make balls of a special mixture of seeds and soil, find a good spot, and…toss them! Seed balls can be spread in yards, vacant lots, or roadsides.
Can you help wildlife and have fun doing it? YES! Join New Jersey Audubon to get your hands dirty creating seed balls! Learn now to make balls of a special mixture of seeds and soil, find a good spot, and…toss them! Seed balls can be spread in yards, vacant lots, or roadsides.
Water Chemistry Field Trip
Learn how to conduct chemical testing on your local waterbody and what the results mean.
Learn how to conduct chemical testing on your local waterbody and what the results mean.
| basf_waterchem.datasheet.2020_-_kelly_wenzel.pdf |
NEW JERSEY SEA GRANT CONSORTIUM
Pinelands Institute at Whitesbog Village
Fire Ecology
Fire is an extreme and extremely important factor to the New Jersey Pinelands. Many of our native plants and animals are specially adapted to survive fires and many even depend on them for a part of their life cycle.
Fire is an extreme and extremely important factor to the New Jersey Pinelands. Many of our native plants and animals are specially adapted to survive fires and many even depend on them for a part of their life cycle.
The Green Cause
Composting and Its Environmental Benefits
What composting is, the benefits or composting, and how to start composting.
What composting is, the benefits or composting, and how to start composting.
| _earth_day_eco_fair_presentation_-_the_green_cause.pptx |
Carbon Footprint
Explanation of a carbon footprint, what contributes to a carbon footprint, why carbon emissions are bad (topics include lightbulbs, single use plastic, plastic water bottles), ways to reduce carbon footprint, interactive questions along the way, and an interactive activity to calculate your own carbon footprint.
Explanation of a carbon footprint, what contributes to a carbon footprint, why carbon emissions are bad (topics include lightbulbs, single use plastic, plastic water bottles), ways to reduce carbon footprint, interactive questions along the way, and an interactive activity to calculate your own carbon footprint.
| carbon_footprint_presentation__-_the_green_cause.pdf |
| pollution.pptx |
Solar Energy and photosynthesis
Solar Energy and Photosynthesis
Thanks Rose - one of ANJEE's young supporters - for suggesting this link to us!
Thanks Rose - one of ANJEE's young supporters - for suggesting this link to us!