Website: www.hockerton.demon.co.uk
The Hockerton Housing Project was one of the Study Tours at the:
ManagEnergy Workshop and Study Tours on
Local & Regional Energy Action through Schools and Education
26-27 January 2004, County Hall, Nottingham, UK
Programme, Participant List, Video Recordings and slides from the Workshop
Overview
'Sustainability in Practice' is a comprehensive educational experience for young people to learn about the problems of sustainability and discover some of the solutions. The 'problem solvers' are typically in Years 5 and 6. In small groups of 10, they explore different topics; Water, Shelter, Energy, Waste, Food, Bio-diversity plus a mapping exercise done by all the 'problem-solvers'. A half-day visit is sufficient to cover three of these topics and an associated mapping exercise.
All activities take place at the Hockerton Housing Project (HHP) site with all necessary resources provided. A guide ('Sustainability in Practice' Resource Pack) has been developed to provide teachers with a summary of all the activities and how they link to National Curriculum (currently Key Stage 2 only [age 9-11]). This is also designed for use at pre- and post-visit in-school sessions. Members from the Hockerton Housing Project can also visit the school to prepare 'problem solvers' for their task! Teachers are invited to a free after school 'come and see' event before committing to an educational experience that they, or their pupils, won't regret!
The aim is to make a visit to the Hockerton Housing project, using the 'Sustainability in Practice' Resource Pack, an educational experience for young people (and of course their teachers) which is unique, fun, exciting, developmental and even life changing!
For further details please contact Nick White or Louise Lipman at the Hockerton Housing Project.
The Hockerton Housing Project (HHP) is the UK's first earth sheltered self-sufficient ecological housing development. The residents of the five houses generate their own clean energy, harvest their own water and recycle waste materials causing minimal pollution or carbon dioxide emissions. The houses are among the most energy efficient, purpose built dwellings in Europe. They are the focus of a holistic way of living which combines the production of organic foods, low intensity fish farming, promotion of wildlife, and the planting of thousands of trees. HHP's mission statement is 'to act as a catalyst for change towards ecologically sound and sustainable ways of living'.
The project has been Lottery funded by the £15.3 million Social, Economic and Environmental Development (SEED) Programme. The SEED Programme, managed by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation (RSNC) and 11 consortium partners, distributes National Lottery money on behalf of the New Opportunities Fund, under its Green Spaces and Sustainable Communities funding programme.
The SEED Programme aims to stimulate local economic development and support community enterprise, promoting sustainability and helping disadvantaged communities improve the quality of their environment.
For more information visit RSNC's website: www.rsnc.org/seed
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Study Tour participants discuss educational activities with staff of the Hockerton Housing Project in the conservatory of one of the houses. |
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Children's hands-on experience includes building different types of shelters (insulated shelter using polystyrene blocks compared with teepee). |
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Study tour participants outside the houses. The wind turbine can be seen in the background and reed beds used to treat waste water can be seen on the right of the photograph. |
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Study tour participants outside the houses. The photovoltaics can be seen on the top and left of the roofs. |
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