Energy efficiency & safety: a team effort

Waikerie Primary School, Waikerie SA - Youth environment team

Our school’s ‘Youth environment team’ is on a mission to teach others about energy efficiency and safety.

To learn about energy efficiency and safety, we:

• taught the younger students how to cook and use appliances safely in the kitchen
• discussed how to be safe around gas and electricity
• tested the amount of energy used by appliances and worked out how much energy could be saved.

We’re encouraging others to use energy wisely, by:

• creating posters and cartoons showing how we can save energy in our everyday lives and displaying them in classrooms
• displaying our energy safety artwork of Origin’s energy safety mascot, Switch the dog, at the local hardware store
• putting ‘Switch off’ messages on light switches to remind others to turn off unnecessary lights
• helping kindergarten children learn about what energy is, how it’s used and how they can use it wisely.