Electricity Safety Week 2023 was held from 4 to 8 September across registered primary schools within the Essential Energy network footprint.
What is Electricity Safety Week?
Electricity Safety Week raises awareness of the hazards associated with electricity and teaches students how to be safe around electricity. The resources have been developed in collaboration with the Department of Education to meet the Science and Technology and PDHPE curriculum requirements for years K to 6.
The resources include an Electricity and Safety Unit Lesson Book for Stage 3 with STEM design challenge, Electricity Safety Lesson Book for K-6 and four interactive whiteboard lessons featuring activities, videos and teachers’ notes that will engage your students in learning about electricity and how to be safe around it.
Please stay tuned for updates and information on Electricity Safety Week 2024.
If you have any questions regarding the program, please call 02 9212 3888 or email our Electricity Safety Week team essential@primary-pr.com.
Below are activities students can participate in to learn more about electricity and electrical safety.
Activity 1: Learn about our Key Safety Messages
Our key safety messages have been animated! Check them out with your students and hear directly from Charlie and Keira as they talk about important electricity safety tips - Play this to your students
Activity 2: Watch our electricity safety video series on YouTube
Students can learn important electricity safety messages by watching these videos in our YouTube series. Check out our full list of videos here.
Activity 3: Be a Safety Star student competitions
In 2023 we had three student competitions as part of Electricity Safety Week.
- Be a Safety Star Kindergarten colouring-in competition
- Be a Safety Star poster competition
- Safety Star Superhero comic competition
Congratulations to the winners and runners up - take a look at the 2023 winners and runners up below.
Be a Safety Star Kindergarten colouring-in competition
Be a Safety Star poster competition
Safety Star Superhero comic competition
Congratulations to the schools who each won a $350 Modern Teaching Aids voucher, as part of the Participation Incentive Competition:
- Kindergarten Be a Safety Star Colouring-in Competition - Binya Public School
- Be a Safety Star Poster Competition - Rollands Plains Upper Public School
- Safety Star Superhero comic Competition - Wauchope Public School
Activity 4: Try some fun activities with our updated Activity Book
Includes colouring-in pages, snakes and ladders, maze puzzle, crossword, find a word and the key safety messages for Electricity Safety Week 2023.
Download the updated Activity Book
Activity 5: Let’s get coding – new resource for 2023
Year 3 students and above can participate in the Scratch Coding Project for Electricity Safety Week. This project has been developed in collaboration with Code Club Australia and is powered by the Telstra Foundation.
What is scratch programming?
Scratch Programming is a block-based visual coding language used to teach coding to primary-aged students in a simple, fun way.
Create interactive games on electricity safety
Our scratch project is aligned to the Digital Technologies curriculum. It is designed to be delivered in a 45-minute lesson and will help students create an interactive game on electricity safety.
Teachers can use the step-by-step lesson guide with key curriculum outcomes and a starter project already developed in Scratch. See below for resources:
Activity 6: Cables and Ladders Game
Download and print out our Cables and Ladders game, grab some dice and have some fun with friends and family playing this game at home or school.
Try and spot our key safety messages on the board and watch out for those cables!
Download Cables and Ladders Game PDF
Activity 7: Electricity Safety Virtual Incursion
In collaboration with the NSW Department of Education's DART Learning platform, we have produced a 20 minute virtual incursion for NSW primary schools featuring female professionals who share their experiences working in the energy industry.
Take a look at some of the electrical equipment we see in our neighbourhood and check out what an elevated work platform does! We also have a panel discussion about roles in the industry and electricity safety.
https://dartlearning.org.au/excursion/electricity-safety-week-2023/
Online teaching resources
Our online teaching resources include an Electricity & Safety Unit Lesson Book for Stage 3 with STEM design challenges, updated Electricity Safety Lesson Book for K-6 and four updated interactive whiteboard lessons featuring activities, videos and teachers’ notes that will engage your students in learning about electricity and how to be safe around it. Access these resources and more below.
Electricity & Safety Unit for Year 6 Students
Electricity and Safety Unit Lesson Book for Stage 3 (PDF, 2.6MB)
Interactive Whiteboard Lesson
Interactive whiteboard lesson 1
- What do we know about electricity?
- What is energy?
- Transforming energy
Interactive whiteboard lesson 2
- Electricity safety
Interactive whiteboard lesson 3
- Electricity generation and transmission
- Exploring electrical circuits
Interactive whiteboard lesson 4
- Investigating conductors and insulators
- Investigating series and parallel circuits
- Transforming energy
Electricity Safety Week Resources for K-6
Electricity and Safety Unit Lesson Book for Stage 3 (PDF, 2.6MB)
Electricity Safety Lesson Book for K-6 (PDF, 4.6MB)
Merit certificate (PDF, 602KB)
Electricity Made Easy booklet (PDF, 1.8MB)
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