2017 Kentucky NEED Energy Education Workshop - Lexington, KY

If you are unable to complete your registration please email kreagor@need.org to be placed on the waitlist.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

K-8 Grade Teachers in schools receiving electric utilities from LG&E or KU NEED’s energy curriculum is very interdisciplinary. Science teachers are encouraged to invite a Language Arts, Math and/or Social Studies teacher to attend.

WHAT DO YOU RECEIVE:

It’s FREE
Breakfast & lunch provided
Substitute reimbursement
KAS aligned curriculum
Science of Energy Kit
Information about Student Led Community Outreach
Great professional development opportunity

WHO IS THE SPONSOR?
Louisville Gas & Electric/Kentucky Utilities (LG&E/KU)

Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company are regulated utilities. LG&E serves 324,000 natural gas and 407,000 electric customers in Louisville and 16 surrounding counties. KU serves 549,000 customers in 77 Kentucky counties and five counties in Virginia.

Agenda

8:00 a.m. Registration, Pre-Assessment & Continental Breakfast

8:15 a.m. Welcome

Introduction to NEED, Website, NEED Curriculum Matrix

8:30 a.m. Step 1: Science of Energy

Participants will learn about the forms of energy and energy transformations while using resources in the NEED Science of Energy kit.

11:30 a.m. LUNCH

12:15 p.m. Step 2: Sources of Energy – Energy in the Balance

This activity introduces participants to the advantages and disadvantages of the major energy sources through a series of critical thinking, charting, and graphing activities.

1:15 p.m. Step 3: Electricity

Participants will demonstrate the generation of electricity while identifying energy transformations that occur during the generation process and will be introduced to the economics of electricity generation and supply and be able to see first-hand the financial challenges utilities must overcome to be able to provide the power demanded by consumers at the lowest cost.

2:15 p.m. Step 5: Efficiency & Conservation – Engaging your students in Energy Education

Participants will learn about efficiency, conservation, and diminishing returns by using various materials to insulate their house and then test its efficiency using NEED’s Energy House activity

3:00 p.m. Student Leadership and Recognition

Student Energy Teams
NEED’s Youth Awards for Energy Achievement

3:15 p.m. NEED Resources and Paperwork!

Complete post-assessment, evaluations and order forms for NEED materials. Distribution of substitute reimbursement forms.

3:30 p.m. Adjourn