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K-8 science and safety student workbooks

Mouse House Surprise

Grades K-1
Unit: Reading, Science, Health Safety
Material: Story book with activities
Includes: Big Book for teacher

Introduce electrical safety with characters who discover where electricity comes from and what their world would be like without it. Teacher’s Big Book provides illustrated activities on how to stay safe — indoors and out.

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Sam and Jody Save the Circus

Grades 2-3
Unit: Language Arts, Health Safety
Material: Student lesson book with writing exercises
Includes: Teacher’s guide

Students are challenged to identify safety risks and write safety rules. Through dangerous-acting animals, students learn the power of electricity and importance of safety. Included is a creative writing activity.

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Stay Safe

Grades 3-4
Unit: Science, health safety
Material: Student work book with exercises

Students learn how a human body can conduct electricity and how electricity and natural gas get to your home. Reinforces generation and distribution of energy sources.

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Paths for Electricity

Grades 4-6
Unit: Science, language arts, health safety
Material: Student work book with experiments
Includes: Teacher’s guide and light bulb experiment pack

Students investigate circuits, conductors and insulators through hands-on experiments. Find out where electricity comes from and how it gets to your house while exploring how electricity works. Experiment pack includes copper wire and light bulbs. Useful tool for an electricity and magnetism lesson plan.

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Safe at Home Using Natural Gas Wisely

Grades 4-5
Unit: Science, math, health safety
Material: Student workbook with experiments and graphing
Includes: Teacher’s guide and mercapton sticker

In this piece, students travel back in time to learn how sources of heat have changed over the past 70 years — and then they can graph their results. Students learn about natural gas and its properties. Included are teacher demonstrations, safety information on carbon monoxide, a scratch-and-sniff sticker and efficiency tips.

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Zap! Play it Safe

Grades 5-6
Unit: Science, Language Arts, Health Safety
Material: Student magazine book

Explore facts, puzzles, experiments and more through magazine-style stories on electric shock, fossil fuels and electric fish. Learn how shock happens and what to do if you smell natural gas. Also create your own electrical and natural gas safety poster.

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Don’t Get Zapped

Grades 7-8
Unit: Science, Language Arts, Health Safety
Material: Student magazine book

Hear about an Olympic competitor’s shocking story and how power line safety is important to everyone. Incorporate magazine-style articles on current to show students how even a little current can change your life.

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Activities

Follow the Rules

Grades K-3
Unit: Science, Health Safety
Material: Student coloring sheet

By following a few simple rules, students can learn how to stay safe around electricity and natural gas. This coloring sheet allows students to identify and match safe behaviors with tangible electrical and natural gas equipment.

Energy Sources!

Grades 1-4
Unit: Science
Material: Study coloring sheet

Want to differentiate between different types of energy sources in Wisconsin? Use this coloring sheet as a fun introduction to your lesson on renewable and traditional energy sources.

Energy Education with Ben

Grades 4-8
Unit: Science, Technology
Material: Teacher’s guide with CD-ROM and experimental activities

This cd-rom takes you on a virtual tour of a power plant while providing a history of fuel and scientific experiments that will fit nicely into your energy unit. Learn about energy scientists and how electricity is transmitted to your home.

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Energy Guzzler

Grades 4-8
Unit: Science, Technology
Material: Student numbering sheet

This activity explores energy use around the house while investigating electricity and its number of uses in our lives. Includes student numbering sheet with appliances and a teacher answer sheet.

Lesson Plans

Static Electricity

Grades 3-4
Unit: Science
Material: Lesson plan with experiment
Includes: Scientific method experiment sheet

Introduce the concepts of static electricity, attraction and repulsion, charges and more with this inquiry-based science experiment. Experiment materials (not supplied) needed are: balloons, puffed rice cereal or plastic foam pellets, piece of wool, salt and pepper.

Videos

Careers in the Utility Trading Up!

Grades 6-8
Unit: Careers
Material: 13-minute video

Check out a variety of occupations in the utility and trades. Video introduces and discusses career options.

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Renewable energy science kits

Renewable Energy Science Kit for Kids

For Electric Service Territory Teachers Only

Grades 3-8
Unit: Science, Environmental Education, Math
Material: Teacher’s guide and student science journals
Includes: Solar race cars, renewable energy DVD, Who Can Renew? game cards, certificates and classroom poster

Want to teach students the basics of renewable energy and how it produces electricity? This toolbox incorporates four standards-based, hands-on experiments on renewable energy, ranging from building a solar cell car to making biogas. The teacher's guide provides a detailed outline for activities, along with lesson plan talking points. Each student will receive their own science journal to document experiments using the scientific method.

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Energy Trunk

Grades 5-8
Unit: Science
Material:

Energy samples, posters, videos, a watt meter and more!
Includes: Energy Trunk teacher’s guide

This trunk was developed by Wisconsin’s K-12 energy education program and contains a variety of classroom activities and energy equipment. Students learn about energy and see actual coal and oil samples. The energy trunk checklist (pdf 107k) provides a detailed list of trunk contents. Educators can have the trunk for up to three weeks. Trunk mailing costs to and from your school will be covered by We Energies.

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K-8 teacher's guides

Renewable Energy Education

Grades 3-8
Unit: Science, Math
Material: Teacher's Guide with student activities and experiments

Need more background information on renewable energy? What is it? How does it make electricity? The Renewable Energy Education Teacher's Guide is designed to build renewable energy awareness and describe how electricity is produced in Wisconsin from renewable energy sources. The renewable energy lessons are based on academic standards and include differentiated activities for your classroom to explore solar, wind, water and biomass energy sources. Lessons are matched with experiments and step-by-step how-to instructions. The guide concludes with a vocabulary list and student certificate.

Follow the Rules

Grades K-5
Unit: Science, Health Safety
Material: Teacher's Guide with student activities and coloring sheet

Ready-made lessons for your classroom to explore electricity and natural gas generation and safety. Lessons are matched with colorful graphics and student activities, such as "I Spy," to teach four rules of safety. The guide concludes with a vocabulary list and student certificate.

Safety Guide

Adult material: brochure

Comprehensive guide to safety in and around your home. Good for background knowledge on electrical and natural gas safety.

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9-12 newspaper

Energy in Our World Today

Grades 9-12
Unit: Science and Technology, Environmental Science
Material: Newspaper

Explore energy fundamentals and the latest in energy technology in this reality-based newspaper. In addition to Wisconsin coal and wind project highlights, this resource covers energy consumption and efficiency from the perspective of real Wisconsin high school students. Along with how electricity is distributed and generated, the current hot topic of renewable energy is looked at from world and nationwide project viewpoints. Includes student activities and summative quiz.

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