New Live Programs! This school year, we are launching an electronic version of our most popular program, the Energy Lab, from this Educators Web site. You may either use the Web videos to serve as your lesson, or to get the full program experience, you may request an Energy Lab Classroom Kit with circuit materials also to be offered this school year on our Educators Web site. Please check back for this live program during October, Energy Awareness Month! In 2010, we will start taking Traveling Science Program reservations on Wed., Aug. 18. Thank you for inviting us to your classroom!

Energy Story Time
Grades K-1
Units: Reading, Science, Health Safety
Program Length: 30 minutes
Classroom Provides: CD player
• Academic Standards

Discover what happens when a storm knocks out your electrical power. Two unique stories — Mouse House Surprise and King Barkley’s Almost Birthday Disaster — are read to students to teach how to act safely around electricity, and what it means to save energy. Story Time listeners learn where energy comes from and how it is used around the home.

Booked for 2009-10 school year.

Building Electricity
Grades 1-2
Units: Electricity, Science, Health Safety
Program Length: 50 minutes
Classroom Provides: Magnetic chalkboard

What is an energy source? And how do we use them to make electricity? Through an interactive matching activity, students learn what energy sources We Energies uses to make electricity and power homes. With their own piece of the puzzle, students play a part in demonstrating electricity uses, generation and delivery. Dividing the class in two, students participate in a game show - Is This Dangerous? - to learn who Mr. Ouch is and how to stay safe around electricity and natural gas.

Booked for 2009-10 school year.

Hazard Hamlet
Grades 1-2
Units: Electricity, Health Safety
Program Length: 45 minutes
Classroom Provides: 8-foot table near electrical outlet
• Academic Standards

Reinforce the importance of electrical safety indoors and out with this energized safety model. Students are guided through various scenarios that identify and address electrical dangers. Learning safety rules through shocking results familiarizes students with how to use appliances safely.

Booked for 2009-10 school year.

Solids, Liquids and Natural Gas
Grades 2-3
Units: Matter, Health Safety
Program Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Classroom Provides: a table for presenter materials, board space, 1 pencil/student
• Academic Standards

Ever want your students to act like a solid, liquid or gas molecule? In this high-energy program, students investigate where natural gas comes from while exploring the properties of matter and uses of natural gas. Performing hands-on- activities, using the scientific method, students experiment with different types chemical reactions. During the program, Mercapton is introduced to teach students what to do if they ever smell natural gas in their homes.

Booked for 2009-10 school year.

Energy Lab
Grades 3-5
Units: Electricity, Magnetism, Health Safety
Program Length: 2 hour
Classroom Provides: a larger table for presenter materials, board space, 1 pencil/student
• Academic Standards

In our most popular program, students learn how electricity is produced and how it gets to a home or school with real electrical equipment. To help support your electricity and magnetism unit, students work together on teams to conduct circuitry experiments with light bulbs, buzzers and motors. Each student will document their experiments in their own Energy Lab booklet, using the scientific method.

Teacher Comment: “This is wonderful! I couldn’t be happier with the presentation. I have already started to spread the word to every teacher I know. The Energy Lab presenter did an excellent job of teaching all children while keeping them very focused and engaged. All of my students loved the presentation and keep asking for the presenter to come back. Also, this presentation aligns expertly with the MPS Learning Targets, which are based on the state standards. Thank you for such a wonderful service to our community and our future.” Vieau School - Fourth Grade Teacher

Booked for 2009-10 school year.

Sound Off with Electricity
Grades 5–6
Units: Electricity & Magnetism,
Sound, Health Safety
Program Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Classroom Provides: a large table for presenter materials, 1 pencil/student, 1 scissor/student
• Academic Standards

Did you hear that? In this unique program, students build their own speaker to learn how a magnet and copper wire work together to induce electrical current and create sound. Students analyze which speaker creates the loudest sound, and learn about electrical generation, delivery and safety.

Booked for 2009-10 school year.

Solar Car Race - at the Wisconsin State Fair!
All Ages Welcome
Units: Motion, Science
Program Dates: 2009
Program Times: To be announced
Shine Only
• Academic Standards

Students, start your solar cells! Children of all ages get a chance to race a solar car powered by the sun at We Energies' Energy Park during the Wisconsin State Fair. Race debriefings will be held prior to the race to teach students about solar electricity and how it's used in Wisconsin. All racers receive a prize, and the top race time receives a trophy for solar excellence.
No appointment necessary.

Camp Energy
Grades 4-8
Units: Science, Health, Safety
Program Dates: TBD, Summer 2009
Program Length: Varies
Classroom Provides: Varies

Camp Energy is a hands-on summer program that provides students an opportunity to make energy connections beyond the classroom. Indoor and outdoor workshops could include making a solar oven, measuring wind speed, building boats made of fly ash, or other programs from the Traveling Science Program list. If you would like to offer energy safety programs as part of your summer school session, sign up for Camp Energy to come to you.

Booked for 2009-10 school year.

Energy - Just the Facts
Grades 6-8
Units: Science
Program Length: 1 hour
Classroom Provides: Overhead project, TV with DVD player

Get your students thinking about energy in a whole new light with this explorative program on energy fundamentals. With a presentation-style program, students will survey renewable and traditional energy sources from multiple perspectives to learn differences and similarities, how electricity is made, and what impacts their individual consumption contributes to the use of energy sources.

Booked for 2009-10 school year.

Energy & the Environment

Investigating energy in the classroom and want to find out what's happening at a Wisconsin Utility? This program reviews generation and distribution, and the latest news on We Energies' environmental control technologies and renewable energy efforts. Students will learn what they can do to be energy efficient and safe around electricity and natural gas.

Booked for 2009-10 school year.