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Thank you for your interest in teaching your students how to stay safe around electricity. Our Louie the Lightning Bug toolkits and blind bags are appropriate for grades K-5. For additional resources for older children, please visit the Electric Universe.
To order your toolkit, please complete the form below, and we will mail your toolkit to your school.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade Louie Toolkit
This toolkit helps very young children understand basic concepts of how electricity is made, how it is delivered to homes and schools and most importantly how to be safe around electricity.
Free items available in the Kindergarten and 1st Grade Louie Toolkit:
1. We’re Talking Electricity! Coloring Book
Fun coloring and reading activities to reinforce how to stay safe around electricity
2. Home Safety Checklist
Safety activity to help families practice good habits when using electricity and electrical appliances
3. Electrical Safety Stickers
Fun quotes to keep electrical safety top-of-mind
4. Louie’s Rules of Electrical Safety Poster
Important electrical safety messages (one poster per kit)
2nd and 3rd Grade Louie Toolkit
Teach core energy science concepts including generation, transmission and distribution, as well as electrical safety.
Free items available in the 2nd and 3rd Grade Louie Toolkit:
1. Louie’s Electricks!
Fun activities that can be integrated into math, science or reading lessons
2. Home Safety Checklist
Safety activity to help families practice good habits when using electricity and electrical appliances
3. Electrical Safety Stickers
Fun quotes to keep electrical safety top-of-mind
4. Louie’s Rules of Electrical Safety Poster
Important electrical safety messages (one poster per kit)
4th and 5th Grade Louie Blind Bags
Teach core energy science concepts related to electricity and electrical safety.
Free items available in the 4th and 5th Grade Louie Blind Bags:
1. Keep Yourself Safe!
Includes electrical safety rules, basics of atoms, element and molecules, conductors and insulators and more
2. Louie’s House of Hazards
Depicts 13 electrical contact hazards inside and around the house
3. Electrical Safety Stickers
Fun quotes to keep electrical safety top-of-mind
4. Louie the Lightning Bug® Blind Bag
All of these items come in one handy backpack with these extra treats:
- Flashlight with glow loop
- Glow Pencils
- Roadtrip Earbuds with case
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