Summary
The Fixies — tiny helpers who live inside our machines — reveal how electricity travels along wires from the power station to reach our homes. A quick full episode (about 6 minutes) from the how-things-work cartoon, easy to drop into a science or STEM warm-up.
Viewer safety
All ages
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
This episode shows how electricity travels along wires from the power station to reach our homes.
- Where does the electricity in your house come from?
- Why do we need wires and poles to move it?
- Why should we never play near power lines or transformers?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: electricity, energy, wire, power line, transformer.
Try it: Draw a line from a power station to a lamp in your home to trace the path of electricity.