break it down into terms they can relate to. figure out the cost of a car over a year. someone has this number, altho i can't remember who/what it is right now...compare that to a bike. then see what they could buy in a year with the difference, in terms of stuff they're into. games, soda, candy, etc...

maybe make up some visual aids like the total cereal commercial, where you photoshop a pile of candy bars, or playstations, or something, to show what you could buy with the money saved by riding a bike...

On Feb 19, 2008 10:31 AM, Geoffrey B vous.je@gmail.com wrote:

Does anyone have any good ideas to teach kids about the evils of oil. I am helping teach a workshop on oil to kids and need some help. Its part of a renewable energy tour of the city and so the kids will take part in a daycare workshop while their parents tour around town.

I'm thinking games, fun stuff and the sort, they are ten to thirteen years old.

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I would suggest lots of visuals and demonstrations. Pouring a teaspoon of oil over a pan of water? Problem is that would ruin your pan. Something like that. I would say the more encouraging and empowering you can be the better. People this age are really looking for empowerment and independence. There is a great National Geographic short on a water pump in Africa run by a merry go round. I would be really impressed if you can get the kids thinking of the oil under our earth as theirs. Like Air and water, it belongs to them and they have a right to it. Imagine if petroleum was rationed, like it was during world war two, and every kid in your class had a coupon for a barrel of oil. They could sell it, save it, use it to run a car for a short bit, or use it to make medical grade plastics and saves lives. With 6+ billion people on the earth, what is each persons fair share of the remaining crude? Peace, Art

Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:31:01 -0500 From: vous.je@gmail.com To: thethinktank@bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Oil awareness to pre-teens

Does anyone have any good ideas to teach kids about the evils of oil. I am helping teach a workshop on oil to kids and need some help. Its part of a renewable energy tour of the city and so the kids will take part in a daycare workshop while their parents tour around town.

I'm thinking games, fun stuff and the sort, they are ten to thirteen years old.

"Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia" - H.G. Wells