EEWorks

Anne Abel	Anne Abel is a third grade teacher at Roberts School in Fond du Lac. In their energy project, 65 third graders, and their teachers, studied energy concepts in class and kept journals of how they reused, reduced, and recycled at school and at home.
Mike Anderson	Mike Anderson teaches science in the Bayfield school district in northern Wisconsin. As part of Mike's curriculum, students become certified scuba divers and scuba dive in Lake Superior. Mike, along with other teachers, has taken students on several exciting scuba trips to the Caribbean.
Paul Casey	Paul Casey's Wautoma High School Science club held a special celebration for the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. Various in-school activities led up to the celebration that included the construction of a composter, examination of food waste in the cafeteria, energy audits of classrooms, and an Earth Day poster contest. Other activities included a field trip to Mecan Springs to discuss the Perrier water bottling issue, Adopt-a-highway litter clean-up, trail maintenance, construction of bird houses, fish hatchery tour, urban walks, and tree planting.
Allan Clark	Allan Clarke taught student's at St. Mary's Central High School to use a portable sun energy instrument to measure the sun's energy. The students also designed and created energy education posters to be displayed with the instrument. The students demonstrated the instrument for the student body at a school assembly and at other Fox Valley schools.
Dan Doersch	Dan Doersch teaches at Seymour Middle School and had his students take home CFL bulbs to use as a springboard to discuss energy efficiency with their parents. The students used a work sheet that graphically illustrated the real cost of a standard 75-watt bulb compared to a CFL bulb in both monetary and environmental terms. Students illustrated to their parents that CFL bulbs are both more energy efficient and cost effective.
Paula Hase	Paula Hase, along with Nancy Rendl, helped students identify strategies to save energy today and tomorrow by researching conservation and energy use throughout the last one hundred years. Students also completed various energy related projects including the creation of an energy conservation timeline to display in the school, an energy audit of their homes, the development of ideas on how to increases home energy efficiency, the design and creation of energy stickers to post on light switches throughout the school and community, and the design and creation of snake door draft stoppers.
Sunshine Kapusta	Sunshine Kapusta and members of the Environmental Educators and Naturalist Association at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (UWSP) worked with K-12 students. The environmental educators helped students turn 'trash' into art- a mascot. Volunteers from the UWSP organization Roots and Shoots brought the mascot to four classrooms in Stevens Point during Earth Week to teach children how to reduce their energy consumption and promote sustainability. The volunteers then helped students make their own mascot from waste products.
Scott Lee	Scott Lee is a fifth grade teacher at Trempealeau Elementary School. Mr. Lee started a recycling program at the Trempealeau Elementary School in 1987 that has recycled over 155,000 pounds of aluminum and has raised more than $52,000! In addition, over 40,000 pounds of paper, glass, plastic, and other recyclables have been recycled. The money earned by the recycling program is used for environmental projects at the school.
Carol Loest	Carol Loest and the students at Lakeshore Elementary School celebrated Earth Day by participating in skits, singing songs and having fun. Through KEEP activities, first graders learned introductory energy concepts. The students kept an Energy Memory Log to record the types and sources of energy used in the home. The celebration also included a cookout at Mauthe Lake State Park and a field trip. Teachers used solar ovens and the students and their family members observed the wind generators along Highway 41.
Larry Mancl	Larry Mancl works in the Tri-County Area School District. Mr. Mancl works with juniors and seniors on a cross-aged teaching program. The select students earn one credit in a six week summer training program that includes data collection from the school forest and learning teaching methods and lesson plan writing. During the summer, students peer teach and teach to summer school students, and during the school year, they teach to all district students. The project is quite beneficial to both teachers and students. Students can be paired with a district teacher to help with EE infusion into the district curricula. Students learn about, among other things, time management and responsibility as well as develop a stronger sense of self-confidence and work ethic. The school forest is used by the communities of Plainfield and Hancock. The school forest is utilized extensively by district staff and students, especially with the mandate from the DPI to infuse EE into the K-12 curriculum.
Patty McGibbon	Patty McGibbon helped high school students in the Helping Our Planet Earth Environmental Club (HOPE) of Custer write an energy audit for sixth graders to conduct in the classroom. Club members analyzed the energy audit data and posted the results on a web site. HOPE Club members used the energy cycle, a bicycle hooked up to a small generator that powers light bulbs and small appliances, to educate the sixth graders about energy production and conservation.
Mary Olson	Mary Olson organized a school project at Holy Angels School that involved building solar-powered motorized K'NEX structures. The school was divided into eight teams and the students built the models to be demonstrated on Earth Day at the Holy Angels School Energy Fair. The final projects included solar powered roller coasters, Ferris wheel, merry-go-rounds, windmills, and automobiles.
Nancy Rendl	Nancy Rendl, along with Paula Hase, helped students identify strategies to save energy today and tomorrow by researching conservation and energy use throughout the last one hundred years. Students also completed various energy related projects including the creation of an energy conservation timeline to display in the school, an energy audit of their homes, the development of ideas on how to increases home energy efficiency, the design and creation of energy stickers to post on light switches throughout the school and community, and the design and creation of snake door draft stoppers.
Scott Stankowski	Scott Stankowski works with his high school science classes on several data collecting projects. A popular project is deer harvest monitoring on opening day of hunting season. The students poll successful hunters, recording where the deer where harvested. The students analyze the data collected and look for patterns in the data.
Deb Weitzel	Deb Weitzel is a teacher in Middleton. Ms. Weitzel is the coach of the school's Envirothon team. In 1999, her teams place 3rd and 5th in the nation and in 2000, her teams placed 1st and 3rd! Her 1st place team then competed in the international Envirothon in Nova Scotia. Ms. Weitzel also advises an ecology club that raises money for various causes, including buying rainforest acres, adopting a buffalo, and donating $1000 to Dane County Parks to be used at Belle Fontaine County Park.
Margie Winter	Margie Winter teaches is Fond du Lac, where a new high school is being proposed. Margie is dedicated to the school site to be ecologically sound and developing a curriculum that includes EE. She has attended over 40 planning meetings.
Bobbi Zbleski	As the Program Specialist at Wisconsin's K-12 Energy Education Program, Bobbi coordinated a mini-grants program and is also working on an elementary supplement to the KEEP Activity Guide, assisting with KEEP teacher in-services, maintaining the website and developing an online energy course.