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Power Smart for Schools
Power Smart for Schools is a resource that provides over 100 activities for all grade levels in both official languages, produced by BC Hydro.
All activities are in both official languages.
- Kindergarten
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
- Grade 9
- Grade 10
Solar Power and Energy Calculations
Students explore the possibilities of solar power and calculate the amount of energy generated by solar panels.
- Grade 7
Energy IQ – Let’s Get Energized
Energy IQ is a resource that provides information and activities for all grade levels in both official languages.
This activity is designed for elementary students and focuses on the following questions. What is energy, why do we need it, and what are the different types of energy in Canada?
*French Resources Included as Attachments
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
Empowering Learners in a Warming World
This resource was developed as a response to the gaps in knowledge, and requests for support that were identified in our national survey: Canada, Climate Change and Education: Opportunities for Public and Formal Education and feedback from teachers who have attended LSF’s professional development institutes.
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
Switch Classroom
Switch Classroom is free online course that provides a structured curriculum that comprehensively covers energy resources by using engaging videos, presentations, quizzes and other high-level activities and can be adapted to meet the needs of each class.
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
- Grade 9
- Grade 10
- Grade 11
- Grade 12
Energy Sources and Choices
In this lesson, students think about ways they use energy in their daily lives and identify the sources of energy involved.
They consider different sources that can be used for heating and transportation and choose one to learn more about. Students discuss concepts of energy efficiency, energy conservation and sustainability and generate questions about energy sources and choose one to learn more about.
*French Resources are Available as Attachments
- Grade 11
- Grade 12
Bringing Energy Topics Into Your Classroom
This series of web pages begins with the physics of energy and proceeds through a discussion of energy in biological systems and throughout the earth system.
Energy’s influence on human society is explored from the point of view of different sources of energy, the ways in which we use energy, how we make decisions about energy, and the society-wide impacts of energy use. Taken together, these concepts describe energy literacy.
- Grade 10
Electrical Safety
In this lesson, students examine objects that plug in to begin thinking about ways we use electricity in our daily lives.
Students then go outside into the school community on a scavenger hunt, looking for signs of electricity before exploring important electricity safety rules to keep safe.
- Kindergarten
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
Canada’s Most Wanted Energy Wasters
Canada’s Most Wanted Energy Wasters increases students’ awareness of their energy wasting habits and reinforces simple energy-saving behaviors.
In this activity, students construct wanted posters for “energy crimes” that they have committed over the past week.
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
Exploring Canada’s Energy Future
This guide has been created to support teachers in using the Exploring Canada’s Energy Future Interactive Tool with their students available at www.cer-rec.gc.ca/energyfuturesdata.
*Resources provided in French
- Grade 10
Nuclear Science Week – Resources
Nuclear Science Week is an international, broadly observed week-long celebration to focus local, regional, national and international interest on all aspects of nuclear science.
Nuclear Science Week takes place each year on the third week of October, and each day provides for learning about the contributions, innovations and opportunities that can be found by exploring nuclear science.
- Grade 10
- Grade 11
- Grade 12
Energy Games and Puzzles
Introduce renewable and non-renewable resources using colouring sheets or the energy bingo games.
- Kindergarten
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5