PLAYENERGY IS ENERGY

Again this year, PlayEnergy is addressing teachers and students to accompany them as they discover energy – the engine of our life and our planet.

ENEL’s play/scientific project is back with important new features, the usual scientific rigor, and a host of appointments, all worthy of celebration.

As part of the UN’s Year of Sustainable Energy and its Millennium Development Goals, PlayEnergy deals with the energy issue starting from daily experience, to stimulate the formation of an energy culture at all ages.

With off- and online materials, cutting-edge technological support, and a contest with two competitions offering rich prizes, initiatives, and local events, PlayEnergy involves thousands of students in every school grade, in many countries around the world. The 2011-2012 edition will explore the different energy situations in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Italy, Panama, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and the United States.

The PlayEnergy world is completely free of charge. To discover this year’s many new features, start right from this site: you’ll find sections with deeper analysis, multimedia, challenges, and an area reserved just for you!

UNDERSTANDING WHAT’S BEHIND ENERGY

There’s a whole world behind the simple gesture of switching on the light. Understanding how energy is born, how it gets to our homes, what sustainability means, and what we can do to achieve a more aware consumption makes it possible to develop the energy culture that now more than ever is essential to our planet’s future.

Thanks to the integration of simple and flexible materials, PlayEnergy, in school and at home, embarks on a “reverse” journey into the world of energy, starting from daily experience – our homes – and ending with the places where energy is produced – the power plants.

At school, the path is broken down into stages with information, experiments, updated data on the international energy situation, interviews with leading figures in the world of science, case histories, activities, and games:

1) Eco...homes, schools, cities, countries

2) Substations, pylons, power lines, and markets

3) Electric power plants: earth, air, and wind

4) The Italian electricity system

At home, the path is developed with fun materials to get families involved in energy, science, innovations, and the environment.
And of course, the journey continues online, on the multimedia site!
PlayEnergy’s materials are differentiated by grade, and are thus available free of charge in versions for elementary and high schools.