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LIGHTSOUT OHIO FOR SCHOOLS

LESSON: Kindergarten through 2nd Grades

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Things That Use Electricity: Use creative license with a thinking map to draw a colorful electrical cord, and show children the huge number of items we use in our homes that use electricity.  (courtesy of the Alliance to Save Energy)

Lesson Plan
"Things That Use Electricity" lesson

Draft-O-Meter: This activity has students create a draft detector with plastic wrap and then determine whether the windows in their classroom and houses are air tight or not. (courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy)

Lesson Plan
"Draft-O-Meter" lesson

Elementary InfoBook Activities: A wide range of activities relating to energy including fill-in-the-blanks, crosswords, pie charts, matching exercises. (courtesy of National Energy Education and Development Project) 

Lesson Plan
Elementary InfoBook Activities - This 17-page booklet may take a minute to load.  Please be patient.

LightsOut Ohio Take Home Assignments - Students and their families can join the rest of the community in performing energy conservation at home for Earth Day evening.

  • Make it as simple as turning of all non-essential lights as a step towards make energy-saving choice every day.
  • Great for extra credit!

Carbon Footprint Calculators - Learn how much CO2 a family adds to the atmosphere through energy consumption.