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Electricity in Saskatchewan Electricity In Saskatchewan An Educational Resource for Grade 6 Science Section Electricity comes Lesson 1.1 Activity to Saskatchewan Lesson 1.1 Teacher Answer Key 1.0 Lesson Overview and Outcomes Lesson 1.1 Student Worksheet Page 4 Renewable and Non-renewable Resources Section Lesson Overview and Outcomes Saskatchewan is growing and so is our need As much as possible, teachers are forwarded for power. With a population of 1,142,570 to the SaskPower website as that will have Lesson 2.1 Coal Info Sheet Lesson 2.4 Wind Info Sheet 2.0 Lesson 2.1 Activity Lesson 2.4 Activity as of January 1, 2016, and industry and the most current content. Student handouts Page 8 Lesson 2.1 Teacher Answer Key Lesson 2.4 Teacher Answer Key businesses popping up all the time, keeping will be updated annually, but if there is a Lesson 2.1 Student Worksheet Lesson 2.4 Student Worksheet up with the electrical demand is both discrepancy between the printed copy and challenging and providing some unique the website, please defer to the content on Section Lesson 2.2 Natural Gas Info Sheet Lesson 2.5 Solar, Nuclear, Biomass Lesson 2.2 Activity and Geothermal Activity opportunities. saskpower.com. Lesson 2.2 Teacher Answer Key Lesson 2.5.1 Solar Info Sheet Lesson 2.2 Student Work Sheet Lesson 2.5.2 Nuclear Info Sheet This resource provides ways for students to This resource was developed by SaskPower 3.0 Lesson 2.5.3 Biomass Info Sheet inquire and explore a variety of topics when with input from the following educators Page 33 Lesson 2.3 Hydro Info Sheet Lesson 2.5.4 Geothermal Info Sheet it comes to producing power, delivering who provided valuable ideas, feedback and Lesson 2.3 Activity Lesson 2.5 Teacher Answer Key it, conserving it and the ethical, social and expertise. Lesson 2.3 Teacher Answer Key Lesson 2.5 Student Worksheet environmental considerations that go along Powering Lesson 2.3 Student Worksheet Lesson 2.6 Student Worksheet with it. As students learn what goes into Saskatchewan Lesson Overview and Outcomes ‑ All Sources Chart powering a province, it is hoped that they will Thank you to: also begin a journey of discovering the value Lesson 3.1 Power Lines Info Sheet of electricity in their lives and the role they Melissa Sullivan, Lesson 3.1 Power Lines Activity Conserving Electricity can play to use less of it. Section Lesson Plan Developer Elizabeth Stephenson Lesson 3.1 Teacher Answer Key Lesson Overview and Outcomes Lesson 3.1 Student Worksheet This resource was developed to provide Lesson 4.1 Info Sheet Sarah Anderson, Robert Brossart teachers with the most up‑to‑date 4.0 Lesson 4.1 Activity Lesson 3.2 Power Stations Info Sheet Lesson Plan Developer Page 43 information on electricity in Saskatchewan. As Lesson 4.1 Student Worksheet‑Conservation Checklist the electrical industry is constantly evolving Maxine Koskie Ryan Lee Carriere Lesson 3.3 Power Sources Map Activity Lesson 4.1 Conserving Electricity ‑ Student Project and regulations and innovations influence Lesson 3.3 Teacher Answer Key new directions, it's important that teachers Lisa Horsman Marguerite Allard Lesson 3.3 Student Worksheet have current information to share with Lesson 3.3 System Map Tina Exner students. Section Careers Lesson Lesson Overview and Outcomes Section 6.0 Lesson 6.1: Activity and Assessment Page 51 To access the most up‑to‑date 5.0 resource and additional resources visit Page 48 saskpower.com/teacher Reference Materials, Page 53-71 • T Rubric Assessment • Crossword Puzzle and Teacher Answer Key Safety Around Electricity • Expectations Checklist Lesson Overview and Outcomes • Word Search and • How Power gets to Teacher Answer Key Lesson 5.1 Electrical Safety ‑ Info Sheet you handout Lesson 5.1 Activity and Assessment • “I have… Who has…” • Student Activity and Teacher Answer Key Glossary of Terms Electricity comes History to Saskatchewan 1.1 Section 1: Electricity Electricity comes to Saskatchewan Section comes to Saskatchewan 1.0 1.1 Long after investigators in Ancient Greece discovered static electricity in 600 BC by rubbing amber against a fur cloth and seeing the amber attract feathers or pieces of straw, and a little bit after Benjamin Franklin’s discovery of electricity in 1752 when he used a key attached to a kite to attract lightning, and shortly after Thomas Edison’s public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb in 1879 did electricity find its way to Saskatchewan in the early 1900’s. ACTIVITY 4. Instruct the students to work In this section, students will discover how electricity made its way into our homes Students will complete an Instagram together to answer the questions on and neighborhoods and how this advancement was hampered or enhanced by world search (or this same search can be done the worksheet based on what they events. via saskpower.com) to complete their discover from their decade. activity. Working in groups, students will 5. Have groups present their decade have a chance to research, write and summary to the class. present findings in front of the class, all while learning how electricity came to ASSESSMENT: OUTCOME: INDICATOR: Saskatchewan. Expectations Checklist (pg. 54). EL6.1 a) Provide examples of the types of energy Assess personal, societal, economic, and sources used to provide heat and light SUGGESTED TIME environmental impacts of electricity use to homes in the past and describe ways RESOURCES: 30 minutes to an hour. in Saskatchewan and propose actions to in which electricity-based technologies @the_saskpower_story (Instagram) or reduce those impacts. [CP, DM] have changed the way people work, live, http://www.saskpower.com/about- and interact with the environment in APPROACH: us/our-company/our-history Saskatchewan. 1. Log into Instagram Instagram: (@the_saskpower_story), Search saskpower.com for: @the_saskpower_story or saskpower.com • Our History TEACHER BACKGROUND • Grade 6 2. Briefly familiarize the tudentss with It's 1929 and the You will need to understand Instagram. It isn't the layout of the SaskPower timeline necessary to have an account. However, if you pointing out where new decades Saskatchewan Power as the teacher have an account you will receive begin. Commission has updates as they become available. 3. Break students into groups and assign just been formed. them each a decade. (There’s 10 full Their goal? Provide decades represented). electricity to everyone in Saskatchewan. 4 5 Electricity comes History Electricity comes History to Saskatchewan 1.1 to Saskatchewan 1.1 Lesson 1.1 The History of Electricity Lesson 1.1 The History of Electricity Teacher Answer Key Student Worksheet Answer the following questions using the Instagram account TEACHER ANSWER KEY the_saskpower_story. (Note, this key identifies the main points to look for. Some students may say other points that could also be true, so teachers may need to go back into the timeline to verify). 1) Indicate your decade. ________________________________________________ 2) Identify one world or local event or milestone in 4) Identify one transmission or power line fact your decade. from your decade. 2) Identify one world or local event or milestone in your decade and what 30’s - Depression s 30’ - 1939: 2,309 km of transmission lines impact it might have had on the power industry. 40’s - World War II 40’s - 1946: 266 km of transmission lines ________________________________________________________________________ 1949: 7,390 km of transmission lines 50’s - Colour TV, rock and roll 50’s - 1958: 500 km of high voltage line between ________________________________________________________________________ 60’s - Beatles, Vietnam War, first person to step on the Saskatoon and Estevan linking north to south moon, President Kennedy’s assassination 60’s - 90,000 km single line wire. More than enough to 70's - The first Earth Day observed, energy crisis wrap all the way around the earth twice 3) Name one SaskPower generating facility, or building fact, from your decade. 80's - First space shuttle launch, computer use is growing 70's - 1974: 145 km transmission line between Coteau ________________________________________________________________________ Creek and Swift Current (also acceptable is 90's - Hubble space telescope, recession, Gulf War, Corporate acquires the uranium city electrical end of Cold War distribution system) ________________________________________________________________________ 00's - Y2K happens uneventfully 80's - SaskPower begins to run electric cables underground 10’s - Saskatchewan population reaches all time high, 4) Identify one transmission or power line fact from your decade. Roughriders win the Grey Cup 90's - 1997: Condie to Queen Elizabeth power line delivering more electricity to Saskatoon and points ________________________________________________________________________ north 3) Name one SaskPower generating facility, or building, 00's - 2006: 76 km transmission line between Island Falls ________________________________________________________________________ from your decade. and Pelican narrows in northern Saskatchewan 30’s - Humboldt Generating Station is opened, Island 10’s - Major storms cause damage to 11 transmission 5) What was the name of the power company in Saskatchewan in your decade? Falls Station is built lines in Saskatchewan 40’s - The Commission purchases power plants from ________________________________________________________________________ Canadian Utilities Limited 5) What was the name of the power company in your 50’s - Boundary Dam and Queen Elizabeth Power decade? Stations 6) Write a
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