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The news from several green teams around the District indicates that green teams are hard at work again this year, and continue to conserve energy. This issue of Energy Efficiency News high-lights energy-saving activities at several school sites.
Ten schools are in the second year of an official Green Schools Program, led by local project leader, Lorraine Gutierrez, from the Alliance to Save Energy. Several other schools have tak-en on the green team challenge, and continue with a Shared Energy Savings plan offered through the District. Thank you to all of the team members for giving of your time and energy to make Chino Valley Unified School Dis-trict a better steward of our resources.
Over the first six months of this school year, the District has collectively re-duced our energy usage by over 24% compared to 2008-2009. As a result of
Southern California Edison pro-grams the District signed up for, the cost to the District for electricity has been reduced by 28.5% com-pared to the first six months of 2008-2009, despite the ever-increasing cost of electricity. The avoided costs for electricity will be shared with the school sites involved in the program, and will be spent by each school as they decide.
Remember - this is a positive step we can take to avoid costs and keep funding for our classrooms available!
If you have any questions, please contact
Carla Kleinjan, Energy/Resource Conser-
vation Technician for the Chino Valley
USD at [email protected] or
(909) 628-1201 ext. 1450.
GREEN TEAM NEWS ACROSS THE DISTRICT
LEVI DICKEY ELEMENTARY
Green Team students at Dickey check to make sure lights are turned off when not in use. Signs have been made and posted around school to remind everyone about saving ener-gy. Levi Dickey had a green assembly from PEAK Student Energy Actions to identify electricity usage and op-portunities to save.
PEAK – Promoting Energy Action & Knowledge If you would like to find out more about the PEAK Program, please visit this website: www.peakstudents.org/teachers Login: peak teacher Password: bulbman
CHINO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL D ISTRICT
FEBRUARY 3, 2012 VOLUME II, ISSUE 2
ENERGY EFFICIENCY NEWS
RECENT UNPLUGGING
CHALLENGE WINNERS:
Thanksgiving Break 2011:
Anna Borba Fundamental
Ramona Junior High
Chino Hills High School
Winter Break 2011-2012:
Chaparral Elementary
Townsend Junior High
Buena Vista High
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
CHINO H ILLS H IGH 2
DON LUGO H IGH 2
MAGNOLIA 2
TOWNSEND 2
OAK R IDGE 3
BUTTERFIELD 3
W ICKMAN 3
H IDDEN TRAILS 4
CORTEZ 4
CANYON H ILLS 4
WOODCREST 5
ROLLING R IDGE 4
CC hino Hills High continues in the third year of their Environmental Science Acade-my, SEAL (Sea, Earth, Air, Land). Approximately ninety students are involved in SEAL in grades 9 – 11. All of the students in the Academy attend the Green Ambassador class, which teaches them about energy conservation. The Green Am-bassador class will do an energy audit and identify more ways to save energy at Chino Hills High.
Plans are being made to make signs to re-mind staff to turn off lights in restrooms, classrooms, and offices when they are un-occupied.
Where applicable, one bulb in a double fluorescent light has been removed in se-lected hallways in order to save energy.
CHINO H ILLS H IGH SCHOOL
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an effort to show the school it can be done. Containers for recycling have been ordered for each room, in order to promote more recycling. The Green Team plans to collect, empty, and recycle the contents on Thurs-days. Mr. Fritz has presented energy saving ideas that were shared with the stu-dents. Mr. Fritz and Ms. Roe are working with the Green Team to put together an energy conservation as-sembly for February.
Magnolia’s Green Team of about twenty students meets on Thursdays to plan strategies for school-wide conservation. Students made energy awareness posters in Computer class on Mi-crosoft Excel that were placed strate-gically throughout the campus. The Green Team has gone to each room at the school and collected all recyclable materials and placed them in the recyclable bin on campus, in
MAGNOLIA JUNIOR H IGH
DON LUGO HIGH SCHOOL
equipment recycling on cam-pus. Vigilance in unplugging items in classrooms and offices has paid off. Information has been shared with students regarding items such as phone chargers, even when not charging a de-vice, if left plugged in, still utilize energy.
Don Lugo’s Environmental Club has assisted in spreading information campus-wide regarding energy conserva-tion. Signs and posters have been made and are used to encour-age energy conservation and recycling. Don Lugo has hosted two E-waste events for high tech
Townsend
Students on the Green Team have made note cards & post-ed them in their classrooms to remind everyone to un-plug every weekend.
Before holidays, the Team has gone to each room to turn off surge protectors and unplug.
The Computer Lab has been used to demonstrate exactly what needs to be unplugged in order to save energy.
The Green Team at Oak Ridge Elementary has built excitement in terms of having a “Club Ap-peal”. Students are chosen for the green team from the GATE program, as well as from the Student Council representatives. Students are trained to identify energy saving opportunities at monthly meetings led by one of the GATE teachers. Guest speakers are invited to attend the monthly meetings to share how conserving energy impacts them.
Energy conservation and aware-ness is integrated into instruc-tion at Oak Ridge through lan-guage arts. Students are given an opportunity to express through written language how they are an Agent of Change. Disney’s Friends of Change Campaign has supported this concept and brought excitement to energy awareness. When an opportunity arises, Science lessons throughout the year are used to discuss the ef-fects we have on our environ-
they have been involved in campus clean-up efforts, as well as recy-cling efforts. Energy Hog materials have been presented to the students, and teachers have been encouraged to use the Green Schools website with the Road Map Guide lessons to integrate energy saving strate-gies into lessons and establish cur-ricular connections.
Green Team students went on a Walkthrough Energy Audit with Carla Kleinjan to identify energy saving opportunities. Energy-saving “Green Tips” are included as part of the Monday Announcements at Wickman. Reminders to “turn off” are put near light switches. Green Team students are part of the Student Leadership Team and
Wickman hosted a Water Conser-vation assembly. Wickman’s Green Team has been successful in reducing the overall energy consumption on their cam-pus. More importantly, their stu-dents are energy and conservation conscientious. School-wide efforts to change their energy consump-tion habits have been met with increasing support from the com-munity.
OAK R IDGE ELEMENTARY
M ICHAEL G. W ICKMAN ELEMENTARY NEWS
BUTTERFIELD RANCH ELEMENTARY
The Green Schools Road Map Guide web page has been shared with staff to encour-age integrating energy lessons into the regular curriculum. Classroom light monitors have been as-signed to turn off lighting in empty class-rooms. Butterfield hosted a Water Conservation assembly for the students this fall to learn of the many ways we can save water.
Butterfield started a club that has been incorporated into a Green Team. Five Fifth grade students have been trained to help the school save energy. Several of these students are on student coun-cil, so will involve the complete stu-dent council in their conservation ef-forts. Green Team students went on a Walkthrough Energy Audit with Carla Kleinjan to look for possible energy savings.
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ment. Through art lessons via the Picture Person Program, stu-dents are given an opportunity to design posters to be placed on campus to promote energy con-servation and awareness. The Green Team at Oak Ridge has raised awareness about how much energy it takes to power simple things and how it all adds up. They have given students a greater appreciation of how shut-ting off, powering down, and unplugging when they leave, saves energy.
T he Hidden Trails Green Team is made up of 5th and 6th grade
students, and meets bi-weekly. They talk about how the school can save en-ergy, and are continuing an incentive program to encourage classroom par-ticipation. The team made posters to place around school to encourage everyone to be aware of ways to save energy in their classrooms and all around school. The Green Team did classroom walk checks to inspect for energy saving practices.
students found the Disney Planet Challenge on-line – an energy con-servation class project contest for grades 3-6 – and have encouraged teachers and students to partici-pate. Twice per month, the student Green Team speaks at Monday morning assemblies as well as ASB meetings. They discuss and en-courage ways to conserve energy, report on progress that has been
Two students head up the Rolling Ridge Green Team – Kellen Do-novan and Kiley Espinosa. Along with the Green Team teachers, Denise Costello and Claire Bur-ris, they meet once a month to report on progress and discuss ways to save energy. Posters and signs have been made for recycling and to put on light switches to remind staff to turn off lights when not in use. The
made, and give suggestions for improvement. Rolling Ridge students and staff have an increased awareness of ways to conserve energy. This has resulted in unplugging electronics when not in use, and using surge protectors in the classroom. Teachers are keeping doors shut more consistently, and keeping the conditioned air in the room.
ROLLING R IDGE ELEMENTARY
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NEWS FROM H IDDEN TRAILS ELEMENTARY
Hidden Trails focused on ways to use the sun’s energy as a way to save elec-tricity and worked on a solar oven cook-off that taught about conserving energy. Parents were given flyers on how to save energy during the holidays at our Giving Night. Green Team members provide up-dates, reminders, and information at
our weekly morning as-semblies.
Hidden Trails collects clean, dry, CRV plastic bottles and aluminum cans. There are two marked drop off con-tainers in front of the school, one for plastic and one for aluminum, please deposit your recyclables separately. Funds collected contribute towards upgrading and maintenance of our school garden, as well as provide stu-dent recognition. Together we can help preserve our environment while making Hidden Trails an even Better Place to Learn!
Canyon Hills The Green Team has designed and printed classroom reminders for energy savings. They plan on printing large signs for the
doors to their Multi-Purpose Room.
Teachers and students are trying to save energy in the classroom, as well as the Media Centers and Cafeteria, by keep-ing lights off when the room is not be-ing used.
Students from each grade level at Alicia Cortez Elementary went on an Energy Audit with Carla Kleinjan in order to learn different ways the school could save energy. Teachers were asked to select two stu-dents from each class who would be in charge of turning off lights, and to dis-connect electronics on Fridays.
ALICIA CORTEZ ELEMENTARY
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WOODCREST JUNIOR HIGH
The team is good at reminding people nicely to use half of the lights when it is appropriate. The Green Team has been us-ing a Kill-A-Watt powerstrip to
see how much energy is being used by elec-trical appliances.
Woodcrest students attended a Walkthrough Energy Audit with Carla Kleinjan. Students have provided ideas of ways to cut energy costs, and visited classrooms before breaks to re-mind teachers to un-plug.
Chino Valley USD Electricity Cost Savings - First Six Months, entire District
Jul-07 Aug-07 Sep-07 Oct-07 Nov-07 Dec-07 Total Difference
$414,633 $463,878 $592,541 $384,625 $284,994 $236,915 $2,377,587 Compared to 2007
Jul-08 Aug-08 Sep-08 Oct-08 Nov-08 Dec-08 $369,713 $419,374 $603,876 $419,080 $295,599 $238,578 $2,346,219 -$31,368
Jul-09 Aug-09 Sep-09 Oct-09 Nov-09 Dec-09
$344,017 $409,349 $573,340 $344,070 $263,969 $206,293 $2,141,038 -$236,549
Jul-10 Aug-10 Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10
$176,218 $317,949 $520,492 $370,167 $259,187 $203,327 $1,847,340 -$530,247
Jul-11 Aug-11 Sep-11 Oct-11 Nov-11 Dec-11
$169,926 $281,858 $491,842 $342,588 $224,762 $186,676 $1,697,652 -$679,935
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Chino Valley USD has done very well in avoiding electricity costs during the first six months of this year. Keep up the great work!
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Looking for Lessons on Energy? Here are a few links to websites to assist you:
Get Energized! Investigate the Science of Energy http://www.sce.com/popup/workshop2007-1.htm
Got Power? Discover the Sources of Energy http://www.sce.com/popup/workshop2007-2.htm
Getting Wise: Energy Efficiency & Conservation http://www.sce.com/popup/workshop2007-3.htm
Making connections: Energy & the Environment http://www.sce.com/popup/workshop2007-4.htm
Energy http://www.sce.com/popup/workshop2008-1.htm
Alternative Energy http://www.sce.com/popup/workshop2008-2.htm
Conservation and Insulation http://www.sce.com/popup/workshop2008-3.htm
Energy Quest http://energyquest.ca.gov
Energy Hog http://www.energyhog.org/adult/educators.htm
US Dept of Energy Learning Resources http://www1.eere.energy.gov/education/lessonplans
National Renewable Energy Education Programs http://www.nrel.gov/education/educational_resources.html
Energy Star http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=k12_schools.bus_schoolsk12
Science Teaching Experiments (4-8 grade) http://www.charlesedisonfund.org/Experiments/experiments.html
Pizza Box Solar Oven http://www.nmsea.org/Curriculum/4_6/pizza_box_oven/pizza_box_ovens.htm
Green Schools Road Map http://www.greenschoolsnational.com/resources1.html password: energy
http://ignitingcreativeenergy.org
http://www.dosomething.org/programs/
http://www.charlesedisonfund.org/
http://www.usewaterwisely.com/index.cfm
