In the light of media coverage concerning rising cost of fuel bills it would be sensible for us all to be more aware of how we could save energy and money. This is responsibility for all.
Challenge
Can you think of any innovative ways to save energy at home or in school? Post your ideas as a comment to this post.
All children who comment will be awarded one house point and one overall winner will be chosen to receive a prize. Good luck!!!
You could:
Turn of the light when you go out the room
Turn off the tap while you are brushing your teeth
Have a shower instead of a bath
Walk or cycle instead of going in the car
Participate in Earth Hour
You can:
Turn the television off if you are not watching it
Switch lights off when you don’t need them
Only put heating on when it is cold
Switch off plugs at the wall
Don’t leave shower on stand by
You could get a A3 peice of paper or sellotape four A4 sheets of paper togther or any card of paper you have and make a chart a chart wich shows everyone in your family’s names and there regular energy using appliances and then write rules like:Try to be in the shower for no more than 10 minutes and Try to make sure you only have 2 appliances on at the 1 time. This would keep you occupied during the Christmas holidays and help you save energy.
you could insted of having your night light on turn it off if you dont need it of if you are in the bath switch of your telivison ,light,lamp,computers,and games that use electricity off . you could if you had a big family use the same bath water .
You could….
instead of watching TV you could turn a card board box into a puppet show.
after you take a bath keep the water and wash your pet in it.
read a book in the dark with a torch.
save energy by turning of the lights and use candels
You could use glow in the dark toys when your electricity goes out.
acept playing any ps3 or xboxs or tele play a family game or have a cosy night without any electricity
Walk to school or cycle DON’T USE A CAR ,re-use a water bottle,make something out of a cardboard box, use a torch instead of overhead lights.
walk to shcool rather than a car
insted of throwing out things like cardboard boxes and things make a puppet theatre and watch the puppet show instead of television
take house points of your teacher for not turning the smart board off get your mum to pick up 4 other kids so your not use as much petrol
insted of putting your rubish in a normal bin you could buy a recyling bin and put your rubish in there.
if you are turning lots of stuff on you can turn all of it off and run upstairs and turn it all off and only leave one thing on and for down stairs you can light a candle.
put on a jumper insted of the heating turn of the light and tell gost storys
wait till you have had your breakfast,lunch and dinner and then wash them all together
one night a week try and take 1 hour with out power
time yourself for 4 mins and go in the shower
or if you prefer a bath then get the youngest person and then the next and so on to share the bath water
and if its just one person and you have a pet then also wash your pet .
When you go out to play turn off your xbox or any other games.If you are late for school istead of going in a car you can go on a scooter.
we could try and swich all the light of tv of put all the cables and use a torch as a light then just sit at night and watch the stars see how many you can find or you could only watch tv serton amouts,weeks or days
To heat you up in the morning get a hot drink and put a jumper on instead of putting the heating on
get your friends together in one car so your using less fuel