Duncan Cran is participating in the Canadian Geographic Classroom Energy Diet Challenge.  The Challenge runs from February 6 – March 30, 2012.  In this contest classrooms are trying to complete 25 Energy Challenges.  The purpose of the Challenge is to think about Energy and how to reduce Energy use.  The goal of this challenge is to increase student awareness and understanding of energy use.  Secondly, to encourage students to think critically about energy and develop more energy-conscious decision making skills.  Thirdly, to help teachers meet learning objectives with curriculum-linked activities about energy.  Some examples of the challenges are:  Design a poster to convince people in school to reduce their energy use, to complete a garbage audit of the amount of garbage in the school, to build an anemometer to determine the best areas for wind in our school yard to determine what might be a good spot for a wind turbine, and to create an online pledge form and to get people to sign and commit to reducing energy.  Every class in our school has signed up to be a part of this challenge.  We are competing against 480 class rooms from across Canada.

If you would like to see more about what we have been doing towards the challenge visit:  www.canadiangeographic.ca/cedc