Cool School Challenge
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions at your school!
www.coolschoolchallenge.org
Age group: Grades 6-12
Geographic area: Worldwide
The Cool School Challenge is an educational program that engages students and teachers in practical strategies to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions school-wide. You will conduct a school audit and create an action plan. After taking the Cool School Challenge pledge, you will learn how to monitor and evaluate your results.
To get started with the Cool School Challenge, you'll need to designate a Challenge Coach, such as a science, math or other teacher, administrator, or leader of a student organization. The role of the Challenge Coach is to train, support, and oversee the Student Challenge Leaders in implementing the program at your school.
Student Challenge Leaders can be any interested class or group of students. Under the guidance of their Challenge Coach, they will learn how to conduct a classroom energy audit. They will then recruit as many classrooms as possible into the challenge, helping them measure their CO2 emissions and then developing a strategy to reduce these emissions.
Student Challenge Leaders monitor the progress of the participating classrooms and look for ways to motivate and inspire classrooms to achieve the greatest reductions possible, such as running a school-wide contest to see which class can generate the most emission reductions. You can then challenge another school in your district to meet or beat your school's emission reductions.
Visit the Cool School Challenge to download a classroom toolkit and start the challenge at your school.
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