Summary
The environmental education programme "discover energy and talk about it", is aimed at primary school pupils aged 11 - 12 years and is promoted and financed by the Pamplona City Council (Ayuntamiento de Pamplona) through its Energy Agency.
The programme has been in place since 2001 and has as its principal objective education and awareness raising about energy. More than 6,000 pupils have participated in the programme. It is developed in workshops lasting one and a half hours per class-group within the schools. Workshops are participative and practical in character, and involve the pupils, teachers, other workers at the school and the pupils' families and so encourage discussion between the generations. Throughout the programme information leaflets about energy, energy saving and renewable forms of energy as well as other teaching and promotional materials are made available to teachers and pupils.
Results
Since 2001 more than 6,000 pupils have participated in the school programme. Each year the programme thoroughly evaluated by means of separate questionnaires for pupils and for teachers, thereby identifying introducing improvements in terms of organizational arrangements, content and support materials.
The programme has had a significant and positive impact on Pamplona schools, and is repeated annually. The project, fully based on and integrated into the schools€ curriculum, has enabled a high quality module for pupils concerning the issues of energy and the saving of energy to be inserted into the curriculum, which would not otherwise be available in Pamplona. This programme is provided by the local authority, is personalised and free, and is adapted to the linguistic diversity that exists within the schools.
Due to the success of the programme, we decided to make a test this year of this programme in secondary (15- 16 years old). In this way, we choose two schools, and we are working with teachers and pupils. The main difference between primary and secondary programme, is the length of the sessions: in primary programme sessions are one and a half hours long and only one session per group and year, in secondary programme sessions are one hour long and each group has a session every month during the year (the total number of sessions are 9).
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