Energy Audit Kit Resources
Discovering Energy In and Around Your School Building
The purpose of this page is to support educators with the following resources:
- Instructions, videos, and manuals for using tools in the KEEP Energy Audit Kit for discovering energy both inside school buildings and classrooms and outside in schoolyards, forests, and the natural environment.
- Worksheets to support conducting a school energy audit
- KEEP Activities that can be conducted inside and outside a school building using tools in the KEEP Energy Audit Kit
Don’t have a kit? Check out KEEP’s Energy Kits to learn more about the kit contents and to request to borrow a kit!
The resources below support the following kits: Energy Audit Kit, Take-home Energy Audit Kit, and Watts Up? Meter Kit.
Indoor Activities for Discovering Energy
Conducting an Energy Audit
Complete each worksheet below for each room in the building you wish to audit.
Following the completion of the energy investigations worksheets, compile students’ top energy-saving recommendations.
Lighting
Plug Load
Other
Outdoor Activities for Discovering Energy
According to the Children and Nature Network, there are numerous reasons teachers should take their students outside: Nature enhances academic achievement, improves student behavior, motivates the students to learn, promotes communication, improves cooperation, helps students focus, and of course makes them healthier and happier! You know the benefits of teaching outdoors – but actually doing it can be daunting. That’s why KEEP has compiled this comprehensive list of energy lessons that can effectively be taught outside.
Infared Thermometer
How to use an Infared Thermometer.
Light Meter
How to use a Light Meter.
Watt Meter
How to use a Watt Meter.
Flir One Camera Attatchment
Flir One Pro Thermal Imaging Camera.
Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer
How to Use a Temperature/Relative Humidity Probe.
Digital Thermometer
A thermometer designed for measuring the temperature of the refrigerator and freezer.
Energy Audit Walkthrough Presentation
Overview of school Energy systems and common ways to save energy in your building.
Additional Curriculum and Lesson Plans