Children's drawings on energy saving.

1. Background and objectives of the Competition

The first republican competition of children's drawings "Energy saving through the eyes of children" is held on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the International Holiday " Energy Saving Day”.

11th of November on the initiative of the international ecological network "School project on the use of resources and energy" ( SPARE) declared as Energy Saving Day ( International Day of Energy Saving). The decision to establish this holiday was made in April 2008 at an international meeting of coordinators held in Kazakhstan SPARE. And already in November 2008, the world celebrated the first Energy Saving Day. This holiday received international status, since about 20 countries wished to take part in the project. The main purpose of the holiday is to draw the attention of the authorities and the public to the rational use of resources and the development of renewable energy sources.

In this regard, Ministry for Investment and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, being the authorized body in the field of energy saving and energy efficiency, holds a competition of children's drawings "Energy saving through the eyes of children." The general partner of the project is Eurasian Resources Group (hereinafter - ERG). Partners are Kazakhstan Association of Energy Auditors, United Nations Development Program/GEF And JSC "Institute for the development of electric power industry and energy saving"(hereinafter - Partners).

The competition is held in order to educate the younger generation of environmental consciousness, sustainable lifestyle skills and draw their attention to the problems of energy use, thereby encouraging children to study the elementary principles of energy conservation, while helping to reveal their creative abilities.

1. General provisions of the Competition
   • These Regulations establish the principles of organizing, holding and summing up the results of the Children's Drawing Contest "Energy Saving through the Eyes of Children" (hereinafter referred to as the Contest).
   • The organization and holding of the Competition is based on the principles of general accessibility, free development of the personality and freedom of creative self-expression of the participants of the Competition.
   • Children between the ages of 4 and 17 can take part in the competition.
   • Collective and anonymous drawings (not containing information about the contestant) are not allowed to participate in the contest and will not be considered.
   • Works can be submitted by educational institutions (including institutions of additional education for children) or other organizations.
   • All drawings sent to the Contest can be used by the Organizers in the future for various promotions, including exhibitions and book publishing.
   • Drawings of the winners will be marked with prizes.
   • The winners and prize-winners of the Competition are determined by the jury of the Competition.

1. Contest Organizers
   • The organizer of the competition is Ministry for Investment and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan (hereinafter - MID RK).
   • The Organizer and partners jointly carry out general management and control, operational management of events within the framework of the Competition.
   • The Organizer places the Regulations on the Contest on its Internet resource and, together with partners, monitors its observance.
   • The Organizer approves the composition of the Competition Jury. Partners are entitled to 1 (one) voting vote in the Jury. Representatives of other organizations may be invited to the jury.
   • The Organizer invites information partners of the Contest and places information about the Contest on websites, printed publications and other mass media.
   • The Organizer and partners jointly carry out the organizational, technical and methodological support of the Competition, the activities of the Jury.
   • The Partners organize the awarding ceremony for the winners of the Contest and provide Prizes to the winners and diplomas to the participants of the Contest.
   • The Organizer and partners jointly establish the procedure and register the results of the Competition.
   • The Organizer and partners jointly keep records of questionnaires and works of participants and winners of the Competition.
   • The awarding of the winners will be timed to the 10th anniversary of the International holiday "Energy Saving Day".

1. Competition Award
   • The total prize fund is 1200000 tenge and allocated by a partner in the face of ERG.
   • As part of the Competition, prizes are established in the following categories:

• Owner Grand Prix "Best Drawing"(no age limit) - Diploma "Grand Prix 150 000 tenge;
• Laureate "The best drawing in the age group from 4 to 7 years":

- diploma " Laureate of the 1st degree» + a valuable prize equivalent to 125 000 tenge;

- diploma " Laureate II degree 100 000 tenge;

- diploma " Laureate III degree»+ a valuable prize equivalent to 75 000 tenge.

• Laureate " Best drawing in the age group from 8 to 12 years»:

- diploma " Laureate of the 1st degree» + a valuable prize equivalent to 125 000 tenge;

- diploma " Laureate II degree»+ a valuable prize equivalent to 100 000 tenge;

- diploma " Laureate III degree»+ a valuable prize equivalent to 75 000 tenge.

• Laureate " Best Drawing"in the age group from 13 to 17 years":

- diploma " Laureate of the 1st degree» + a valuable prize equivalent to 125 000 tenge;

- diploma " Laureate II degree» + a valuable prize equivalent to 100 000 tenge;

- diploma " Laureate III degree» + a valuable prize equivalent to 75 000 tenge.

• Special Prize" Computer graphics"(no age limit) - diploma "Best computer graphics" + a valuable prize equivalent to 100 000 tenge.

By decision of the Jury members, one additional (encouraging) prize is awarded (the best idea, the best technique, the originality of the approach to the disclosure of the topic, through the prism of humor, etc.) - a diploma + a valuable prize equivalent to 50 000 tenge.

Partners have the right to additional rewarding of their favorite participant/participants of the Contest from their own funds, not related to the prize fund of the Contest.

1. Terms of the Competition

1. Conditions of the competition
   • Drawings for participation in the Contest are accepted by e-mail [email protected] Anytime from 01 September 2018 to3 0 septNovember 2018.
   • The participant has the right to withdraw his work for participation in the Contest at least 3 days before the deadline for accepting works.
   • Requirements for drawings submitted to the Competition:

– the subject of the Competition is creative drawings on the topic “Energy saving through the eyes of children”;

- the works can reflect both their own creative vision of real phenomena, as well as fantasies and associative thinking of a young author related to energy saving or energy efficiency in the past, present and future;

– drawings must correspond to the theme of the Contest and display the promotion of energy saving, energy efficiency (the plot is at the discretion of the author).

– drawings can be made on any material (drawing paper, cardboard, canvas, etc.) and executed in any drawing technique (oil, watercolor, ink, colored pencils, crayons, etc.);

– there is a separate nomination for works made using computer graphics (CorelDraw, Photoshop, etc.);

– scanned works made on A4 paper (standard landscape sheet) or A3, in color or black and white (graphics) are accepted for the Competition;

– the works submitted for the Competition must be in electronic form (JPEG or PDF image format), in color, the size of the image should not exceed 10 MB;

– drawing for the competition can only be submitted by its author, parents with the consent of the author or an educational institution with the consent of the author;

- drawings must be made without the help of parents or teachers;

- the drawing is sent to the competition by e-mail, along with the application in accordance with the approved form (see table 1);

- each drawing must be accompanied by an application, which indicates - the surname and name of the author, his age, the name of the drawing, the postal address of the author's residence; email address to contact the author or his parents, as well as consent to use the picture;

- the number of works submitted to the Competition by one child cannot exceed 1 drawing.

6.4. Works that do not correspond to the subject of the Contest or the requirements specified in paragraph 6.3. of this Regulation, are not allowed to participate in the Contest and are not considered.

1. Jury of the Competition and criteria for evaluating competitive works
   • The composition of the Jury is not announced before summing up, in order to avoid the facts of pressure.
   • The jury checks the work of the participants.
   • The Jury ensures the unity of the criteria for selecting winners and laureates of the Competition.
   • The jury participates in awarding the winners and laureates of the Competition.
   • The work of the jury of the competition to evaluate the works of the participants of the Competition begins on the last day of the competition.
   • The jury carries out an expert evaluation of the drawings submitted for the competition based on its subjective assessment based on its experience, guided by the main evaluation criteria.
   • Criteria for evaluation:

– compliance with the theme of the Competition;

- the originality of the plot and the originality of the disclosure of the topic;

- artistic value.

7.7. Evaluation of competitive works is carried out in two stages.

Stage one : The jury collectively selects the most promising works for participation in the second stage in each nomination.

Stage two: The jury carries out an expert evaluation of the drawings selected for the second stage in accordance with the evaluation criteria from 0 to 10 points. Winners are determined by the highest total points received from all jury members for all evaluation criteria (see table 2).

Table 1. Applicationto the drawings sent to the competition ()

Table 2. Evaluation list of competitive works that passed to the second stage ()

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Not so long ago, I came up with the idea to organize a competition of children's drawings on our blog about how they see energy. Yesterday I found out that I was ahead of myself. Launched on the corporate website of Bashkirenergo competition of children's drawings "Energy through the eyes of children". Unfortunately, only users of the corporate network can view and vote for their favorite pictures. I downloaded some drawings from there and decided to post them on our blog.

I hope that next year we will organize several such competitions ourselves.

Most of the drawings that I looked at contained the main "attributes of energy": chimneys, smoke itself, light bulbs, wires, sockets, batteries and other things that are usually associated with light and heat. Many drawings with congratulations on the day of the power engineer, with poems and words of gratitude for the light and warmth.

Winners of the drawing competition "Energy through the eyes of children" 2011

It is not very easy to make energy saving lessons for children interesting and fun. Probably for this reason, queries related to energy saving classes are very common in search engines.

Today, looking at the statistics of clicks to my site for search phrases, I again found that someone was looking for "classes in the senior group on the topic of energy saving."

This was the first reason for writing this article.

The second reason is the International Energy Saving Day, which, perhaps, not everyone knows about. That energy saving important for the preservation of the environment, most likely you have heard. This is increasingly being talked about on radio and television.

Methodical materials for lessons on energy saving.

To make it interesting for children to learn about ways energy saving, add a little excitement to your classes! And the result will pleasantly surprise you!

What could be more gambling? Board games are convenient in that they can be played during classes in the classroom, or you can play together with your child at home.

Today I am sharing with my readers methodological materials for conducting energy saving lessons, which were developed by teachers and schoolchildren of the Far East - participants in the Energy and Habitat competition.

This competition is held as part of the SPARE project - the School Program for the Use of Resources and Energy. Detailed information about the program can be found on the website - http://www.spareworld.org/

Being the coordinator of the SPARE project in the Far Eastern Federal District, I have collected the most interesting developments created by the participants of the competition. These are games, performances, class notes, presentations and videos.

Board games for elementary and middle school students

You can find board games for primary and secondary school students at this link - http://yadi.sk/d/07S5h3KhC783m.

Part of the playing field for the board game "Let's Save Energy". Author Druzhinina T.Yu., Nakhodka, Primorsky Krai.

This block includes different games - both the winners of the competition and the participants who did not receive prizes.

I used the Save Energy game to start a conversation about energy saving with my third graders. I devoted two sessions to this topic. The result was the video "Where does the light in the light bulb come from".

How the children played the board game "Let's save energy", and how our discussion of the game took place, you will see in this video. The game is very simple and clear. The children played with pleasure.

I am sure that from the three proposed games you will choose the one that will be interesting for your children.

Lessons on energy saving for primary school students.

Lessons on energy saving included in this block were developed by teachers from Nakhodka and Vladivostok. These are the two best teachers of the Primorsky Territory, whose works almost always win prizes in both the Far East and the All-Russian stages of the Energy and Habitat competition.

In order to focus the attention of primary school students on any difficult problem or complex issue, poetry, game performances, various tasks that require children to do some kind of activity, and interactive games are a lifesaver.

The proposed developments are examples of such activities. You can fully use any of the activities. Or you can be creative and use them to create your own lesson, aimed specifically at your unique children.

So, this was the first part of an article devoted to interesting activities on how you can save energy.

Tomorrow you will read the continuation of the article. In the second part of this article, you will receive videos and presentations for conducting energy saving lessons.

You will also learn about International Energy Saving Day and what energy saving activities you can organize with your children on this day.

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