Dreaming in Green - Young Voices for the Planet

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• Teaching Tips
  Video can be used as a hook before teaching about energy efficiency, carbon footprints, or before an energy audit assignment is given to the students. This is an example of an action project that involves mathematics, science, and technology.
• About the Science
  Students present their actions to reduce the energy use of their school and show that in addition to saving money, their efforts also reduced the school's carbon footprint and gave the students a sense that they can personally make a difference in conserving energy and reducing waste. Comments from expert scientist: Scientific strengths: - Motivates students to take action in their own schools to combat climate change with realistic options: turning off the lights/AC, creating an energy audit, putting weather tape in doors - shows the financial benefits
• About the Pedagogy
  Seeing peers do energy audits and engage in energy savings for their schools will engage other students; it directly shows how "kids have power."
• Technical Details/Ease of Use
  Video is well staged and produced for web use. It has closed-captioned text that can be turned on and off.