Renewable environmental resources
topic of workshop
From Staff Reports
Science teachers from elementary schools in Elizabethton
and Carter County recently participated in an "Energy and
the Environment" workshop at the Elizabethton Electric System
(EES).
Geared toward students in grades 6-9, the program
is jointly sponsored by EES, TVA and Nexus Energy Software
of Tempe, Ariz., according to Brent Dugger, EES industrial
relations representative.
The program meets Tennessee curriculum framework.
It has been taught to more than 1,000 students in Elizabethton
and Carter County schools in the past two years.
The program is designed to:
* Help students understand how much energy is
used in their household;
* Help students understand the relationship between
energy and the environment; and,
* Help students become energy conscience and
protect the air, land and water resources.
Approximately 10,000 students in the TVA region
are participating in the program. Participating locally are
science teachers from T.A. Dugger Junior High School, and
elementary schools at Keenburg, Hunter, Happy Valley, Hampton,
Central, Range and Unaka.
At the completion of the one-week class, teachers
receive a TVA Certificate of Completion. All workbooks and
supplies are furnished by the sponsors.
This is the third year for the program in Elizabethton
and Carter County schools. "The program has been highly successful
from the feedback we have received," Dugger said.
