Events
Adopt an Energy Monitor
Pupils at 10 primary schools across the country are being given an unusual classroom ‘pet’ to take home and look after this term – an E.ON energy monitor.
The nationwide ‘Adopt an Energy Monitor’ scheme – which has been launched to coincide with E.ON’s drive to get the nation ‘energy fit’ – is being piloted in schools across the country to teach children and their parents about saving energy and to demonstrate how energy monitors can help to easily track how energy is used (and often wasted) in the home.
To prove that energy saving can also be fun, E.ON has created animal characters (donkeys, monkeys, rabbits, crabs and puppies) so children can decorate their energy monitors and take them home – just as they would the classroom pet – and work with parents or carers to conduct energy saving investigations.
Children in participating classes will undertake an energy-saving investigation at home using the energy monitors. They will then take part in a curriculum-linked workshop led by an E.ON volunteer, culminating in a whole-school assembly where they’ll share what they have learnt with other pupils, teachers and parents.
The Town of Total Darkness
In summer 2008, pupils in primary schools across the country will be visited by E.ON’s Town of Total Darkness curriculum linked theatre tour.
During the performances, the children engage with the theme of energy. They help as two detectives, who have travelled in a time machine, work out why all the lights have gone out in 2030 and what we can do now to stop this from happening.
