Our educators can come into your classroom and co-facilitate workshops with your students, or guide you through our workshops virtually. See a list of some of our workshop options below!
Our educators can collaborate with you and support you in using our extensive curricula kits and equipment for a more in depth experience with our hands-on equipment. Let us know what topics you are interested in covering.
Our educators can help facilitate an authentic action project with your students to encourage choices that result in sustainability.
Some of our programs (Conservation Kids, Electricity & the Environment, Home Heat Transfer, Green Energy Careers) can be offered free to NH teachers in NHSaves territory.

“VEEP/NHEEP is just not an organization that is working to support the students’ learning but it is the most effective vehicle to connect learning to the real world! Students benefit from hand-on inquiry and are able to extend their learning.”

A teacher participating in a teaching partnership

“I loved how many different technologies were available for students and how everything applied to their own lives.”

A teacher working with our educators

“VEEP is an amazing partner. They educate and empower students to believe they can take action to help make our world a better place.”

A teacher working with our educators

Many of our students have head of “climate change” but did not know much about renewable resources or what is causing the warming of our planet. This was a great introduction and lead to them having more questions and a dialogue that can be carried throughout our year.

My students loved the workshop. We loved the Energy Bike- I heard from other teachers in school that students have been talking about how much energy it takes for incandescent bulbs to light than LED.

LEARN ABOUT OUR WORKSHOPS

CONSERVATION KIDS | GRADES K-3

Hands-on activities help students explore transportation, basic home appliances, and the difference between human energy and power plant energy, with a focus on simple conservation behaviors that students can do at home or school.

SUN FUNDAMENTALS: LIGHT & SHADOWS | GRADES K-3

Examining solar energy, light, and shadows, and incorporating engineering principles in engaging, hands-on lessons.

WIND FUNDAMENTALS: USING WIND TO DO WORK | GRADES K-3

Explore wind and engineering principles as you build pinwheels, sail boats, and windmills.

MAGNETISM | GRADE 3

Students explore magnetic force through hands-on experiments with magnets, paperclips, and other metals. This workshop lays the foundation for learning about electricity in later grades.

ELECTRICITY & THE ENVIRONMENT | GRADES 4-10

Students learn about electricity and how it powers our world. They will engage in explorations that let them learn more about electrical generation and efficiency.

RENEWABLES BY DESIGN | GRADES 5-10

Students are challenged to think like engineers tasked with reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. Through a series of hands-on wind, solar, and hydro stations, students test variables, collect and analyze data, and start to construct explanations and solutions from the evidence.

HOME HEAT TRANSFER (BUTTON UP) | GRADES 4, 6-12

Students explore how they can use less energy to heat their homes while still keeping it a comfortable temperature. Culminating in a challenge to build an energy efficient structure to keep heat in.

MODELING CLIMATE SCIENCE | GRADES 6-12

Students develop their understanding of factors that have caused a rise in global temperatures over the past century with emphasis on the major role that human activities play through a hands-on experiment.

SMART TECHNOLOGY & CLIMATE CHANGE | GRADES 9-12

Students explore electricity use and smart meters to answer this question: How can new technologies in electrical metering reduce electrical usage and subsequently reduce CO2 emissions?

GREEN ENERGY CAREERS | GRADES 10-12

Students investigate home electricity use and create connections between electrical usage, electrical generation and carbon dioxide emissions. They’ll do a hands-on analysis of the benefits available from efficiency improvements and how those can relate to job skills and career opportunities.

ECO-DRIVING | GRADES 9-12

Bring an Energy Educator to your driver’s education class or high school science class for a lively presentation on maintaining and operating your vehicle in ways that save the most energy.

TAKING ACTION | GRADES 6-12

Get students motivated to design and implement their own action project through this kick-off workshop. Students will explore the causes and solutions around climate change and create their own action steps.

Workshops covered by NHSaves for New Hampshire teachers

Conservation Kids

Electricity & the Environment

Home Heat Transfer

Green Energy Careers

North Country Weatherization Education Opportunities

For teachers and students in the North Country of New Hampshire - combine education with field trips and hands-on build-a-thon! Learn more here.

DETAILS

Some of our workshops (Conservation Kids, Electricity & the Environment, Home Heat Transfer, Green Energy Careers) are offered to teachers in NHSaves territory for FREE thanks to generous NHSaves funding.)

Grade range: K–12

Time commitment: varies

Cost: Our in-person and virtual workshops are available for $200 per class supported. If you have funds budgeted to do this work, it will help VEEP/NHEEP’s long term stability to receive payment. However, we are aware that many schools don't have room in their budgets, and we can provide scholarships to any class that needs it thanks to generous support from Efficiency Vermont, VLITE Foundation, Putnam Foundation, NH Charitable Foundation, VT Gas Systems, and additional funders.

OUR EDUCATORS ARE AVAILABLE TO DISCUSS THE OPTIONS. SIGN UP BELOW AND YOUR REGIONAL EDUCATOR WILL BE IN TOUCH.

Requests are honored first come, first served. Note that you may sometimes need to book a few weeks in advance, depending on the availability of our educators.

TEACHING PARTNERSHIPS & WORKSHOPS