Essential Energy's electricity safety education for schools (previously known as Electricity Safety Week) aims to raise 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.
Key safety messages - Be a Safety Star
Electricity safety messages for students
School classroom resources
We’ve developed a range of resources to support electricity safety education in schools. 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.
Key safety message activity worksheets
Join our electricity safety champions Charlie and Keira as they investigate each of our seven key safety messages in more detail. Use the worksheets to help share and embed the safety content with your students.
Download the Key Safety Message Activity Worksheets
Activity book
Try some fun activities in our Activity Book. Activities include colouring-in pages, maze puzzle, crossword, find a word and our key safety messages.
Colouring-in, poster and comic templates
Use our colouring-in, poster and comic templates to students to help students design and create their own electricity safety materials.
Scratch coding project
Year 3 students and above can participate in the Scratch coding project. 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:
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
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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