Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative (MEC) and Discovery Channel School are pleased to provide an educational kit like no other! Students will Get Charged! with this comprehensive and exciting set of instructional materials supporting a key science Standard of Learning in Virginia’s middle schools - electricity.

Discovery Channel School has partnered with Touchstone Energy cooperatives across the country to create these materials for classroom use.  Touchstone Energy is a national branding alliance of electric cooperatives, working together to communicate the cooperative difference.

The kit is correlated to National Science Education Standards and is designed specifically for middle school students and teachers.  It provides a real world understanding of the power and purpose of electricity and includes information about the important role electric cooperatives played in lighting up rural America.  There is a comprehensive teacher’s guide along with suggestions on easy integration for the first time use into your existing curriculum.

Each Get Charged! kit contains the following curriculum materials to help make learning about electricity fun and relevant:

• An educational poster

• Two Videos: Understanding: Electricity & Touchstone Energy’s Our Story

• Interactive CD-ROM featuring Electricity

• Lesson Plan: Get Power - The Cooperative Way

• 10 Student Activity Books

• Electricity Teachers Resource Guide

MEC is proud to provide this material in support of your educational needs.   If you have any questions regarding this program or about MEC in general, please contact your local district office.