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Experiments to Explore Electricity: Understanding Electricity and Electrical Safety
This colorful booklet is filled with challenging but easy-to-follow experiments using everyday items that are easily available to teachers and students. Activities range from brainstorming the 50 ways that electricity helps in your activities, to hidden-word games, to a simple test allowing students to determine whether a given material is a conductor or an insulator. Grades 3-6.
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Bright Ideas For Educators
Contains a collection of imaginative, novel and innovative classroom projects that have been awarded FirstEnergy Mathematics, Science and Technology Education Grants. Delightful graphics illustrate the 15 activities that energize K-12 classrooms and turn students on to learning. The bright, colorful booklet is available in an Adobe® Acrobat® format, or you can receive a hard copy by clicking on the Shopping Cart icon and filling out and submitting the order to be added to our mailing list.
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Don't Get Zapped!
This magazine-activity book for middle school students offers a lively mix of games, activities and experiments that foster common sense about electrical safety. It also provides real, scientific knowledge about the power of electricity. |
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The ABCs of Electricity - Power for America
Explains how electricity is generated and distributed. Line drawings and graphics help answer complex questions simply. Grades 4-8. |
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How to Save Energy
This unique activities book educates young children about the concept of saving energy. It provides activities that introduce and reinforce basic energy-saving tips they can practice. Grades 1-4. |
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Where the Little Lightbulb Gets Its Juice
A companion to the video of the same title offered in our video library, this booklet is filled with games, puzzles and other activities to provide a simple explanation of how electricity is produced and distributed to homes. Grades K-5. |
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What Everyone Should Know About Electrical Safety
Electricity is an invisible servant that must be respected. This booklet contains tips for remaining safe around electricity - both indoors and outdoors. It also includes information on the safe use of power tools. Grades 6-Adult. |
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Meet Tom Edison
This informative booklet covers Thomas Edison's life from age 9 - when he was discouraged from attending school - to his death as a billionaire at the age of 84. Grades 4-8. |
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How Nuclear Energy Plants Work
Nuclear fission, how the heat of fission is captured and put to work, the basic features of a nuclear power plant and how nuclear plants differ from other power plants are covered. Grades 6-Adult. |
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About Electric Utility Careers
People are the most important resource of any electric utility - whether they work in generation, transmission, distribution or administration. This booklet provides an overview of jobs available for high school, technical school or college graduates. Grades 8-Adult. |
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Radiation: We know you have questions. Here are some answers.
Readers will learn what radiation is, where it comes from and how it is measured. This brochure also highlights the many important uses of radiation and the strict enforcement of safety standards by the nuclear industry and government. Grades 6-Adult. |
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Energy Efficiency
This booklet is a guide to energy efficiency that focuses on weatherization, heating and cooling, water heating, major appliances and lighting. It motivates consumers to change their behavior by linking economic and environmental impacts. Grades 7-Adult. |
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Welcome To The Beaver Valley Power Station
The Beaver Valley Power Station, a two-unit site in Shippingport, Penn, is one of more than 100 commercial, nuclear power plants operating in the United States. This colorful, informative booklet demonstrates how Beaver Valley works, including easy to understand graphics, schematics and pictures. It also provides information about radiation, waste management and emergency preparedness. One booklet per classroom. Grades 7 - Adult. |
