Electricity Safety Week 2023 will be held from 4 to 8 September across registered primary schools within the Essential Energy network area.
Key Program Dates:
- Registrations open: Tuesday 6 June 2023
- Registrations close: Friday 18 August 2023
- Be a Safety Star competitions open: Monday 17 July 2023
- Electricity Safety Week: 4-8 September 2023
- Be a Safety Star competitions close: Friday 27 October 2023
- Be a Safety Star competitions winners announced from Monday 27 November
To register interest in the program or to ask a question, please call 02 9212 3888 or email our Electricity Safety Week team essential@primary-pr.com
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.
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
Entries are now open for our three student competitions as part of Electricity Safety Week. Win $1000 for your school P&C Association and individual STEM prizes for student winners and runners up.
Entries close Friday, 27 October 2023.
For more information on each of our competitions, visit the below links:
Be a Safety Star Kindergarten colouring-in competition
Be a Safety Star poster competition
Open to students from Years 1-4.
Safety Star Superhero comic competition
Open to students from Years 5-6.
Need some new supplies for the classroom? Would a $350 voucher* to Modern Teaching Aids help? All schools registered for Electricity Safety Week 2023, with classes involved in any of our three ‘Be a Safety Star’ competitions, will go into the draw to win a Modern Teaching Aids voucher – think what you could buy for your classroom! There will be three draws – one for each competition.
Check out the fantastic entries from our 2022 winners and runners up below:
- Be a Safety Star Kindergarten colouring-in competition – winners and runners up
- Be a Safety Star poster competition – winners and runners up
- Safety Star superhero comic competition – winners and runners up
Check out our winning Safety Star superhero comic which was turned into an animation.
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:
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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