Energy Audit

In this lesson, learners will practice graphing and statistically analyzing data. In the first part of the lesson, they will survey items in their homes that use energy; a worksheet is given to each learner that includes multiple choice questions related to energy consumption that will determine their energy audit scores. Depending on their grade level, learners will use all the audit scores from the group to find the mean, median, mode, range, upper quartile, or/and lower quartile. After the numbers have been analyzed, the group may review why it is important to reduce energy consumption and may think of ways to conserve energy. This lesson is standards-based and includes worksheets written in Chinese and resources for educators. [Activity is publicly available through a web crawler capture on Archive.org.]