Here are a few ideas to develop into Outreach projects at your branch considering the EWB-UK communities of practice of: Energy, Water, Industry, Transport, ICT, Shelter

We want to hear your ideas for projects you have run or would like to run. In the outreach session at the national conference we had a brainstorming session and here are some of the ideas we came up with below. If you want to talk through an idea, how to turn an idea into a project or see if there is any material available from other branches on a project please contact one of the outreach team: outreach@ewb-uk.org. Similarly if you have some material you would like to share with other brances please let us know too.

Water Purification and Treatment

 

Where humans fit into the water cycle

Water extraction

Sources of water contamination

 

Workshop Tasks

Testing water for bacteria by using a microscope

 

Energy Efficiency

Insulation

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Energy resources

Emissions

Climate change

Heating

Food waste

Public transport

Car sharing – going with friends

Fairy liquid lasts longer, soft hands

Lower temperature washing

 

Workshop task – Measuring energy usage of appliances, measuring carbon footprint and competition to see who can reduce it the most, make wind turbines at school

 

Shelter

How can engineering help?

What would you do if you moved to a city with no money and no house? 

Limited materials

Limited construction methods/equipment

Limited funds

 What does a shelter need?

 What does your house have?

Compare houses in the UK to houses in the developing world

 

Workshop Tasks

Scrapheap challenge type activity building and testing shelters from scrap materials

Transport to transfer products

The importance of transportation

 The problems with transport infrastructure and methods in developing countries

 Possible solutions to transport problems and why new policies have not been implemented eg. costs

 What makes transport a problem?

People

Food/Water 

Products

Waste

 

Workshop Tasks – Design and make small cars

Recycling

Statistics

Current recycling/recycling capabilities – ie what can be recycled?

Targets

How much we waste – household, industrial

Something they can relate to

How it affects the developing world

Conclusion

 

Workshop Tasks

Teach awareness of what can be recycled

Construct an object from recyclable and non recyclable materials

Demonstrate the ease of recycling many materials

Interactive game – engaging

Remove all recycled materials – object still standing wins

ICT

 

How would you find out what’s at the cinema and what time would it take?

How do you find out the price of food?

Where do you use ICT?

When do you use ICT?

How often do you use a computer?

 

Workshop Tasks – Researching a task in groups by talking to each other, reading in books or using a computer

Global Food Supply

 

Other countries

Your lunch today

Concerns 

Price

Fairtrade

Mass purchase – cheap but better?

 

Workshop Tasks

Next time you go to the supermarket find out where your food comes from

Calculate how far your food has travelled