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INTRODUCTION
Electrical Safety World uses articles, illustrations, investigations, and activities to explain electricity-related science concepts, and how to use electricity safely in daily life. This content is appropriate for students in grades 4-6.
Electrical Safety World supports the following Oregon Academic Content Standards for science and health education:
Grade 4
Science
4.1 Structure and Function: Living and non-living things can be classified by their characteristics and properties.
4.1P.1 Describe the properties of forms of energy and how objects vary in the extent to which they absorb, reflect, and conduct energy.
4.2 Interaction and Change: Living and non-living things undergo changes that involve force and energy.
4.2P.1 Describe physical changes in matter and explain how they occur.
4.3 Scientific Inquiry: Scientific inquiry is a process of investigation through questioning, collecting, describing, and examining evidence to explain natural phenomena and artifacts.
4.3S.2 Summarize the results from a scientific investigation and use the results to respond to the question being tested.
Grade 5
Science
5.2 Interaction and Change: Force, energy, matter, and organisms interact within living and non-living systems.
Health Education: Health Skills
HE.05.HS.01 Identify and access resources at home, at school, and in the community for health and safety information.
HE.05.HS.02 Demonstrate management skills to prevent unsafe situations and promote behaviors that enhance health and safety.
HE.05.HS.04 Use communication skills to help self and others avoid unsafe situations and promote healthy behaviors.
HE.05.HS.05 Use a goal-setting model to set goals that enhance health and safety.
HE.05.HS.06 Use a decision-making model to make positive health and safety decisions.
HE.05.HS.07 Advocate for the benefits of safe and healthy actions and environments at home, at school, and in the community.