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How can students help save energy?
There are unlimited ways students can work with school officials to conserve energy in your school. One way is to launch a district-wide program like this one designed by the Alliance to Save Energy. In a program like this, staff and students work together to teach about energy in the classroom, create school-wide awareness about energy use, bring energy awareness home, and finally, actually conserve energy! Check out schools that have already tasted the sweet success of students and teachers working together.

Kids can make a difference at home too! The Alliance to Save Energy’s kids page inspires students to help their parents save energy in their own homes. It guides them through learning about basic energy concepts and gives them effective tools for making a difference, such as information on how to do a home energy audit, an energy scavenger hunt, and a family energy quiz. Students can become an Official Energy Hog Busters here!

Kids have an opportunity for their creative voices to inspire others across North America! The Igniting Creative Energy Challenge offered by Johnson Controls Inc. and the National Energy Foundation is a competition where students can sing, write, or make a video about how a person can make wise energy choices that help our community and our environment. The competition is open to all U.S. and Canadian students (except for Quebec). Click here to see last year’s winning entries.

Other ways to involve and inspire students!
Bring Energy into the classroom through a variety of curricula reviewed by our staff in our Curriculum Library. Also consider the Energy Information Administration’s Energy Kid’s Page full of classroom activities, stories, fun games, curriculum, and even exercises that demonstrate careers in wind and solar power. Then check out the DOE and Midamericanenergy.com for online computer games about energy.

Consider having the Energy Hog traveling road show come to your school!

The Kid Wind Project offers workshops at many locations around the country to teach students and teachers alike about wind power. They also have project kits you can purchase so that your students can build their own experimental wind turbine.

Also challenge your students to learn and apply knowledge of solar power as well with the NREL’s Junior Solar Sprint/Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car Competitions.

If your students have already made a difference in greening your school, challenge them to become published authors by writing about it! That’s right, students can submit their articles, photos, or artwork to the Kid’s Corner, a monthly newsletter published by the Alliance to Save Energy.

Finally, check out the NEED Project, which offers workshops on energy, conferences for teachers, and other programs that aim to promote energy education.