How Electricity Gets to Your Home
A cyberlesson by Sarah Edwards
By
Barbara Seuling
Illustrated By
Nancy Tobin

• You will use the text, Flick a
Switch, and four websites to learn about how electricity came to be.
• You will also learn about electrical safety and how electricity is used on a daily basis in our everyday lives.

• Flick a Switch, How Electricity Gets To Your Home, by
Barbara Seuling and illustrated by Nancy Tobin.
• Electrical Science Journal
• Laptop computer
• http://www.clarkpublicutilities.com/yourhome/safety/safet yOutdoors
• http://www.clarkpublicutilities.com/yourhome/safety/safet yIndoors
• http://www.cl-p.com/electricsafetyworld/index.html
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• http://www.cl-p.com/Home/Safety/SafetyVideos.aspx
• http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=10854
• http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/Wind/wind.htm

• What do you know about electricity?

• Look through the pages and notice the text features of a non-fiction book.
• Look at the versa page, how is it organized?
• Make a prediction about the book
• (Write these answers in your ESJournal)

• Visit the following website on safety.
• http://www.clarkpublicutilities.com/y ourhome/safety/safetyOutdoors
• http://www.clarkpublicutilities.com/y ourhome/safety/safetyIndoors
• Use the graphic organizer on the next page to make a list of ways to be safe around electricity.

• INSIDE
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• OUTSIDE
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• What do you want to know about electricity?

• Read page one, it has all the questions on it.
• Answer the questions in your electricity science journal.

• Include five facts.
• Draw pictures with each fact for extra credit in your journal.
First
Timeline
Second Third

• Pretend that you have invited Mrs.
Frizzle and her famous kids to take a trip along these power lines.
• Write a letter in your ESJ to Mrs.
Frizzle telling her about each of the stops.

• In your journal write what you learned.

• Which experiments would you like to try and why?

Choose three questions to answer in your electrical science journal. Use the book to help you.
• What kinds Of Electricity are there?
• Why is the dog not so sure that Benjamin
Franklin was smart? (Use the text to support your answer in the ESJ)
• How do you make an electromagnet?
• How do we use batteries, can you think of ten things that we use batteries for?
• Write down five important facts.
• Can you think of a place or an activity that does not need or use electricity?
• List three things.

• http://www.clp.com/electricsafetyworld/index
.html
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• http://www.clp.com/Home/Safety/SafetyVideo s.aspx
• Use these sites to learn more about electrical safety.

• There are places in the world that do not have electricity.
• One town is getting it next week, but they do not know anything about electrical safety.
• Create a poster about safety.

• http://www2.scholastic
.com/browse/article.jsp
?id=10854
• http://www.builditsolar.
com/Projects/Wind/win d.htm
• Which energy option produces “greener” electricity? In your
ESJ write a pro/con paper using each website for information.

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• Flick a Switch, How Electricity Gets To Your Home, by Barbara
Seuling and illustrated by Nancy Tobin.
Clark Public Utilities
• http://www.clarkpublicutilities.com/yourhome/safety/safetyOutdo ors
• http://www.clarkpublicutilities.com/yourhome/safety/safetyIndoo rs
Connecticut Light and Power
• http://www.cl-p.com/electricsafetyworld/index.html
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• http://www.cl-p.com/Home/Safety/SafetyVideos.aspx
Scholastic.com
• http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=10854
Build it Solar
• http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/Wind/wind.htm