Education
Northwest Sources of Electricity Activity Book
Activities and information to help you explore different ways to generate electricity, discover where electricity comes from and consider sources of electricity for our clean energy future.
Climate Change & Carbon Free Electricity Generation
How Hydropower Moves From Nature to Your Home
Be Power Wise
Ways Electricity is Generated
Renewable Energy Discovery (REDi) Island
Explore a world where rivers, tides, and waves help power our communities, monitor our environment, and provide clean drinking water.
REDi Island
An app full of water power waystations will quench your curiosity about climate change, clean energy, the water cycle, and ways to tap the power of rivers and oceans.
Hydro Hollow
Conventional hydropower can store water behind a dam, then release it to generate electricity when it’s most needed.
River Ramble
Run-off river hydropower generates electricity by using only a river’s natural water flow.
Hydro Heights
Pumped storage hydropower generates electricity by storing and moving water between two reservoirs.
Curriculum & Kits
The Nature of Water Power
Grades 4-8
This curriculum has multiple units and lessons to choose from to explore how the force of falling water is used to produce mechanical energy and hydropower.
Make Your Own Hydropower
Grades 7-12
A kit that includes everything needed to complete a functioning hydropower model to light an LED.
How Energy Moves from Nature to Your Home
Grades 4-8
This video with discussion prompts follows the journey of hydropower from a water drop falling as snow to an energy watt traveling on an electricity superhighway to homes and schools. A corresponding poster is also available.
Matty the Water Molecule
This online game for grades 3 – 5 is a narrated story that supports learning about the water cycle and extreme weather while also supporting development of literacy skills.
Teacher & Student Opportunities
FWEE STEM Career Academies
Electricity Production Teacher Training & Kit
Aligned with Next Generation Science Standards, this elementary school virtual training is free! Curriculum introduces students to the future of clean energy to include modules with solar, wind and hydropower.