Each Teacher Guide includes:

• Lesson Plans
• Paperback copy of the storybook A Reminder for Emily
• Teacher Background Information
• Assessment Tools
• English Language Learner suggestions

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This unit helps students to apply their knowledge of electricity, circuits, conductors, and insulators as they design and construct their own alarm circuits. The science concepts of electricity/energy transfer, conductors and insulators, and complete and incomplete circuits are reinforced and students are also introduced to schematic diagrams, a symbol "language" that electrical engineers use to plan and design circuits.

Through lessons and the unit's storybook, which takes place on a station (or ranch) in the Australian outback, students embark on an electricity scavenger hunt, practice drawing schematic diagrams from circuits, and finally design, create, and improve their own alarm circuit and switch to remind them when it is time to do an important chore.

• FOSS Connection: Magnetism and Electricity
• STC Connection: Electric Circuits, Magnets and Motors
• GEMS Connection: Electric Circuits
• Insights Connection: Circuits and Pathways