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Get a Charge From Energy Education!

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Here are useful educational resources for teachers and students. Electricity is an integral part of our daily lives. Can you imagine life without it? Our world could deteriorate into chaos. Today’s students are tomorrow's scientists and inventors. They will discover new ways to generate electricity and innovative ways to use less energy.

For Students and Teachers

	What Makes a Light Work? Video
	Take a tour of Great River Energy's power plants and learn how electricity is made. Download the video.

	The Bakken Library and Museum
	A museum just about electricity and magnetism in Minneapolis.

	Energy Quest
	Award-winning website provides lessons on energy and how to save it.

	Everest Quest
	Reading, math, science and social studies projects follow a climber on Mt. Everest.

	How Dependable Electricity Reaches You
	Learn how dependable electricity gets to you.

Teachers

	Get Charged
	Discovery Channel School and Touchstone Energy cooperatives bring this curriculum.

	Lignite Energy Council Teacher Seminar
	The council offers teachers a first-hand look at North Dakota's lignite industry.

	Teen Power
	An intereactive learning tool about energy for middle school and high school students.

	Wind & Solar Energy Teacher Workshops
	Teachers learn new ways to teach about wind and solar energy.

More Resources

	School Group Tours
	Great River Energy offers school group tours of its facilities.