YOU ARE A TEACHER

The guided tours can be adapted to the level of the pupils, school programmes and teaching projects. Major themes can be set out: water, energy, the environment, sustainable development, territory, energy transition, civil engineering structures, architecture, heritage, history, electricity, mechanics, industry.

The extras of the tour

Guided tours adapted to the ages of the types of public and school programmes.
Tools for pedagogical and lively instruction (handling, experiments) for understanding hydroelectricity.
Unique access to the heart of the industrial facility, from the machine room to the control room.
A games booklet for year 5 and 6 primary school pupils.

All the information for organising your tour

Admission from 8 years old
Reservation obligatory
Groups of 20 people (a class will be split into 2 groups)
Picnic area close by
Carpark

Teaching objectives

Discover and understand:

A large enterprise in the Rhone Valley
Renewable energy production
The trades of the energy sector
The stakes of sustainable development

Teaching project

Specific themes can be developed between you and the tour guide, depending on the teaching project.

For year 5 and 6 primary school children

Discovery and observation: understanding the industrial nature of the site, reading the landscape, initiation in technical scientific vocabulary.
Awareness of the uses of water and energy.
Initiation in the notions of climate change, energy transition and the role of the individual.

For secondary school children

Understanding the interactions between human beings and the environment, between resources and production, between the stakes of energy transition and belonging to the community.
The notions of territory, development and energy.
Discovery of how the energy of water is transformed into electricity and learning the associated technical language.

For college students

A case study of territorial development regarding its economic, social and environmental dimensions.
Understanding the techniques of renewable energy production and their place in energy transition.
Knowledge of the trades involved in hydroelectricity.

For university students

Production sites that provide lessons in electricity, mechanics, physics and materials, energy and the environment, civil engineering.
Understanding the professions linked to the operation of hydroelectricity installations.