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INTRODUCTION
Aunt Sarah and the Amazing Power gives your students potentially life-saving information about electrical safety. The bookletfulfills the following Oregon Academic Content Standards for science and health education.
Kindergarten
Science
K.2 Interaction and Change: Living and non-living things move.
K.2E.1 Identify changes in things seen in the sky.
K.3 Scientific Inquiry: Science explores the natural world through observation.
K.3S.1 Explore questions about living and non-living things and events in the natural world.
Grade 2
Science
2.2 Interaction and Change: Living and non-living things change.
Grade 3
Health Education: Unintentional Injury Prevention
Demonstrate accessing information, self-management, interpersonal communication, goal-setting, and decision-making skills while understanding the components of injury prevention.
HE.03.IP.01 Identify safe behaviors when traveling to and from school and in the community.
Health Education: Health Skills
Demonstrate ability to use health skills, to obtain and interpret health information, to manage personal behaviors, and to advocate for health and safety issues.
HE.03.HS.05 Set short-term goals to enhance health and safety.
HE.03.HS.06 Use a decision-making model to make decisions that enhance health and safety.
OBJECTIVE
After reading the story and doing the activities in this booklet, children will be able to explain the many uses of electricity and where it comes from. They will also adopt six key electrical safety behaviors:
- Go indoors when there is lightning.
- Put only plugs and safety caps into outlets.
- Keep away from power lines.
- Keep away from electrical equipment (such as transformers and substations).
- Don’t mix electricity and water.
- Have a family safety kit in case of outages.