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Show ECC Train Students to Conserve Energy During the week of November 7-11, members of the Energy Conservation Corps will be visiting every home in Iron County to give residents some helpful hints towards saving energy. Elementary school children in Iron County and Granite School Districts have been selected as pilot groups for the development of the Energy Conservation Corps, a project funded by the Utah Office of Energy through Energy and Man's Environment, a non-profit organization originating in Portland, Oregon. An inservice training program for Iron County teachers, grades four through six, was held recently. The workshop was directed by Dr. Phil Carter, associate professor of education at Southern Utah State College and a state member of the EME committee. com-mittee. "The energy situation is an important issue in education today, from the training of student teachers down to the elementary school level," Carter said. ""We believe that by involving in-volving elementary students, we can probably do more than the government is doing toward more efficient energy use in the home. By training children as ECC members, they not only have an influence on their parents but become conscious of energy waste themselves," Dr. Carter said. Children who have elected to become members of the Energy Conservation Corps are being trained in energy conservation and are becoming familiar with ideas in the Energy Saver's Guide, a publication offering practical suggestions for home conservation. The children will distribute this booklet to home owners during Energy Conservation Week November 7-11. "On the college level, energy is becoming an increasingly in-creasingly important teacher training topic. SUSC student teachers are now working in Iron County schools assisting elementary teachers with the Energy Conservation Corps project," Carter explained. "In addition, the 17 SUSC students in the fall quarter elementary block are writing an energy conservation con-servation booklet for teachers which will be completed by the end of November," he said. |