This activity appears in the section “Use
.” The Energy
activity asks students to guess at how much of
home energy use goes to power various activities in a typical
home. Encourage students to print the Energy Pie and label it
with their guesses before they click the answer key.
Remind students that these figures are based on national averages.
If your climate is extremely hot and/or cold, you will use more
energy for heating and cooling than the numbers show. Likewise,
if your climate is quite moderate, your heating and cooling energy
use will be smaller than that shown on the pie chart.