High School Level 1
Energy Audit
Energy Audit Workbook and Training Manual
October 1994
High school students learn science while working as members of a student team conducting an energy audit of their high school. Integrated curriculum emphasizes hands-on learning as students perform a real service to their school, potentially saving at least 10 percent of the previous year's energy bill. Prepared in 1994 by BPA and Oregon State University Extension Services.
Lessons:
- Chapter 1: Energy Audit Overview
- Chapter 2: Resource Accounting
- Chapter 3: Building Inventory
- Chapter 4: School Lighting Audit
- Chapter 5: Energy and Water
- Chapter 6: The School Boiler
- Chapter 7: Food Service, Laundries and Recycling
- Chapter 8: The Project Report
- Supplemental Materials:
- Environmental Costs of Energy (Externalities)
- Physics of Energy Use
- Energy: A Historical, World Perspective
- Energy: A Biological Perspective
- Energy in Food
- Sample Energy Saving Recommendations
- Metric Nomenclature
- Chapter One Self-Test
The entire curriculum is also available for download as a Word document. Click here to download the file (415 K).