Making an Action Plan for Change

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Making an Action Plan for Change

• Energy Alert!

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Learning Objectives

• To be able to take responsibility for energy use.
• To be able to work collaboratively to solve
  problems.
• To be able to identify, plan for and support
  realistic changes.

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Your Challenge

• Your challenge is to draw up a plan to reduce
  energy use in your school.
• You will have to choose a relevant investigation
  that will help you to advise on and help carry
  out real changes.
• What do you think is needed?
• What is achievable?

Decide with your teacher what your plan is meant
to achieve.
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Choose a priority area to investigate

• Use the enquiry framework to help you organise
  things. Look at the example given next for some
  ideas
• You may want to focus on lighting
• Or, you may want to
• investigate draughts around the school.
• encourage pupils to walk to school more.
• Investigate other ideas brainstorm with your
  class!

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An Enquiry framework - example
How many lights are there? What sort of lights
are they? Where are they located? Are there more
efficient models we could use? How much natural
light is available? Is this used as best as it
could be?
Survey count, map, record Research internet,
contact local energy efficiency body for
advice Data loggers and questionnaires for
natural lighting investigation
1)Survey and record number and type of lights. 2)
Research types of lighting e.g. bulbs. 3)
Investigate natural lighting and its use in
school.
How energy-efficient is our school lighting?
What has this experience taught us? How do we
know? Has it changed our thinking and if so,
how? What new questions do we have?
What changes can we make for free? What changes
will cost a little? What changes will cost more?
Report to SMT and Governors. Agree the most
important and useful changes and how they will be
done.
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An Enquiry framework
Our questions
How we will do this
Our focus
What we have learnt New questions
What we have found out
What we should do with our findings and who we
will tell
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What is an Action Plan?Discuss with your teacher
what you think this means.

• Who will it involve?
• What information will you need?
• How much will it cost?
• Who will be responsible?
• How will you check if it is working?
• What is your starting point?

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What headings would you choose for your plan?
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Priorities

• What are the easiest things to do on your list?
• What are the most urgent?
• Which can be done quickly?
• Which will take a long time?
• Can you choose three or four priorities to
  present to others?

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Monitoring your plan

• Have you decided how and when you will monitor
  your plan?
• Who else needs to know about your plan?
• (School web site? Governors? Parents?
  Assemblies? Local press?)
• Good Luck!