BCHydro Power Smart for Schools Program

Electricity and the Domino Effect

Electricity flows in transmission lines and human cells like a cascading line of dominoes

Grade 6 Hands on 45 mins

Explore how the nervous system in the body works to transmit electrical signals that enable everything from your heart b...

Grade 6 Hands on 45 mins

Play a game of Tic Tac Flow to reinforce the concepts of how we use water to make clean, renewable energy here in B.C.

Grade 6 Game 30 mins

Light up your classroom with an electric circuit craft.

Grades 4-9 Class discussion 45 mins

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Learn the basics of a circuit in this activity as you add a bit of light to your paper crafts! Trace a path for the elec...

Grades 4-9 Hands on 40 mins

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Learn the basics of a circuit in this activity as you add a bit of light to your paper crafts! Trace a path for the elec...

Grades 5-9 Hands on 40 mins

Decide which changes to water power technology have increased the efficiency of hydro power the most.

Grade 11 Thought starter 25 mins

Does a hydroelectric dam satisfy Kirchhoff’s laws?

Grade 11 Group work 40 mins

Illustrate how various forms of generating electricity interact with the geosphere, atmosphere, ecosphere, and hydrosphere.

Grades 10, 11 Group work 20 mins