MKA Energy Workshop
Teachers from the Marlborough Kindergarten Association immersed themselves into the topic of “energy” at their teacher only day at the beginning of the year.
Ramona and Annie from the MDC Environmental Education team were invited to the MKA teacher only day in January. This was an opportunity to share their new Energy kit available for teachers to borrow and use with students.
This kit explores the key concepts of energy – its different forms and how we use it, that it is everywhere and that it is continuously changing.
Mostly based on Enviroschools activities the kit involves all the resources needs to get hands on and explore energy in its many different forms. The workshop gave teachers an opportunity to unpack and try these activities as well as book the kit in to borrow at their Kindergarten.
They were also fortunate to have a visit from Duncan Mackenzie from Te Kahu o Waipuna. He shared the box that he is putting together that will also have tools for not only checking energy consumption, but moisture and temperature levels and more. Once completed these will be available for borrowing from the library.