Minnesota Power and NTC invite you to use these e-learning resources to teach your students about electrical safety. The digital materials below are designed to get your students excited about understanding this important subject.
Want to know the best way to use the related videos, games and other lessons to educate your class? Watch this short video and learn how to add Hazard Heroes to your curriculum.
Our live in-school theatrical programs are a great way to educate students about a wide variety of important topics. Theater has the ability to capture imaginations and educate at the same time! This 25-minute show features two engaging actors performing a fun story that keeps kids laughing and learning.
Hazard Heroes teaches viewers about the following educational points:
During the show, your students will learn important lessons about electricity and electrical safety. You can use the lessons and activities on this page to prolong the engagement for months to come.
We know your class time is extremely valuable. That’s why we ensure that all of our digital e-learning materials are aligned with state and national educational standards. It’s important that the Hazard Heroes program adds to your existing curriculum and keeps students on track with their ongoing learning.
See below for details about how each digital activity aligns with educational standards and corresponds with your state’s curricula.
The Hazard Heroes student activities page features games, educational lessons, downloadable PDFs, e-books, Power Play games and more! Access in the classroom or at home to learn more about electrical safety and have fun joining the Hazard Heroes!
This downloadable PDF features colorful artwork, entertaining games and activities, and expanded information to complete your understanding of electrical safety. Read on your own, with your class or with friends and family and get to know the characters of Hazard Heroes.
This colorful, illustrated e-book is a great follow-up to the live program. Students can read to themselves or with others, and younger students can use the read-along option. The e-book takes your students on a new adventure and includes fun interactive activities throughout.
Young readers love comic books. They can be a great way to get reluctant readers to participate. The high-quality graphic novel gets students excited about continuing the journey they started with the live program. With fun artwork and entertaining characters, the graphic novel offers a page-turning experience.
Your students can enhance what they learn from the program with these fun, hands-on lessons and experiments. These lessons can be done in the classroom or easily adapted for students to do at home with their families.
They’re a fun and educational way for students to learn with family members. The materials needed for these lessons are basic supplies that most people have at home. Follow up with your students to make sure they enjoyed and learned from these activities.
Objective
Students will use the engineering process to build a solar oven out of a pizza box.
Purpose of Activity
Read or Listen, Identify Details, Apply Skills
21st Century Skills
Critical Thinking, Collaboration
Cognitive Level
Strategic Thinking, Extended Thinking, Skills and Concepts
Class Time
1 hour
Materials
Procedure
Critical Thinking Questions
How can we use solar power to generate electricity?
What role did the insulation play in this oven?
Adapted from: https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2015/03/f20/PizzaBoxSolarOven.pdf
Objective
Students will use the engineering process to develop an insulated container to minimize the loss of heat energy.
Purpose of Activity
Read or Listen, Identify Details, Apply Skills
21st Century Skills
Critical Thinking, Collaboration
Cognitive Level
Strategic Thinking, Extended Thinking, Skills and Concepts
Class Time
2 hours
Materials
Procedure
Critical Thinking Questions
Which insulation worked best to insulate the water?
What role did heat transfer play in the design of the insulation?
Adapted from: https://energy.utah.gov/energy-education/curriculum/
You’ve covered the basics of electrical safety. If you really want to dig deep with your class, explore the expanded information and additional resources below.
These materials provide even more insight into the history, science, usage and importance of electrical safety. There are also helpful links and tips.
Born in 1791 to a poor family in England, Michael Faraday was extremely curious, questioning everything. He felt an urgent need to know more. At age 13, he became an errand boy for a bookbinding shop in London. He read every book that he bound, and decided that one day he would write a book of his own. He became interested in the concept of energy, specifically force. Because of his early reading and experiments with the idea of force, he was able to make important discoveries in electricity later in life. He eventually became a famous chemist and physicist.
Faraday built two devices to produce what he called electromagnetic rotation: a continuous circular motion from the magnetic force around a wire. Ten years later, in 1831, he began his great series of experiments in which he discovered electromagnetic induction. These experiments form the basis of modern electromagnetic technology.
In 1831, using his "induction ring," Faraday made one of his greatest discoveries – electromagnetic induction, or the generation of electricity in a wire by means of the electromagnetic effect of a current in another wire. The induction ring was the first electric transformer. In a second series of experiments in September 1831, he discovered magneto-electric induction: the production of a steady electric current. To do this, Faraday attached two wires through a sliding contact to a copper disc. By rotating the disc between the poles of a horseshoe magnet he obtained a continuous direct current. This was the first generator. From his experiments came devices that led to the modern electric motor, generator and transformer.Faraday continued his electrical experiments. In “In 1832 he proved that static electricity, voltaic electricity produced by a battery, and the electricity induced from a magnet were all the same. He also did significant work in electrochemistry, stating the First and Second Laws of Electrolysis. This laid the basis for electrochemistry, another great modern industry.
Michael Faraday, one of the world's greatest experimental physicists, is known as the father of the electric motor, electric generator, electric transformer and electrolysis. He wrote the "Law of Induction" and is known for the "Faraday Effect."
Source: https://www.eia.gov/kids/history-of-energy/famous-people/faraday.php
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Follow-up, formative assessments for you to gauge the learning of your students are especially important with e-learning. Below are some suggestions for how you can assess your students’ performance quickly and effectively.
These assessments are easy for you and your students to complete and help ensure your class is getting the maximum educational value, retention and engagement from the related digital activities.
| Elementary Educational Assessments | Live show | Hands-on lessons | Digital games | E-book | Graphic novel | Interactive activities | PDFs & Print materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ask students to reflect on the topic and draw their thoughts on paper | X | X | X | ||||
| Write one or two sentences identifying the main point | X | X | X | X | |||
| Think-pair-share | X | X | X | ||||
| One-question quiz | X | X | |||||
| Journal reflection | X | X | X | ||||
| Have students discuss three things they learned, two things they still want to learn, and one question they still have | X | X | X | ||||
| Hand in completed activity | X | X | |||||
| Submit screenshot of completed activity | X | X |
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