| Lesson Number |
At-Home Activity
(Parental involvement and/or supervision are essential while
students carry out these activities.) |
| Getting Started:
Using Electrical Energy Safely and Efficiently |
Look around your home and neighbourhood
to identify areas where there are potential electrical safety
hazards due to the placement of overhead electrical supply wires. |
12.1
Investigation: Safety in the Home |
- With parental supervision, identify the location of the distribution
panel containing the circuit breakers and/or fuses in your home.
Identify the current rating of the circuit breakers and/or fuses.
- Look around your home or school to identify where power bars
are used. Why are power bars used in these instances?
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12.2
Distributing Electrical Energy Safely |
Look around your home to identify
the locations of GFCI outlet sockets. If there are none, suggest
locations where a GFCI outlet could improve safety, and why. |
12.3
Activity: Practical Circuits |
Identify some small appliances and devices around
your home that are battery-operated. Use the knowledge and skills
you have learned in this activity to carry out an analysis of
two appliances or devices, and draw the schematic circuit diagram
for each one.
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12.4
Making the Most of Energy Resources |
Examine the information on the Energuide
label on the major appliances in your home. (Note that older appliances
may not have these labels.) |
12.5
Electrical Energy Use in the Home |
Examine a recent electricity usage
bill. How might you account for some of the monthly fluctuations
that occur in the part of the bill labelled "Energy Management
Information"? Discuss this with family members and try to identify
ways to reduce energy usage.
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12.6
Activity: The Family Energy Audit |
Involve your family members in the completion
of this activity. |
12.7
Case Study: Efficiency, Conservation and Convenience |
Examine the light fixtures in your home and
determine how many of them use fluorescent bulbs or tubes, including
compact fluorescent bulbs. If you find no compact fluorescent
bulbs, can you suggest why these are not being used?
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12.8
Optimizing the Use of Electrical Energy |
Discuss the Try This activity
(page 380) with your own family members. |
12.9
Activity: Achieving Self-Sufficiency |
Identify people or businesses in your community
who are using alternative energy resources to produce electrical
energy. Contact them for information. |
12.10
Explore an Issue: Need More Energy? |
Discuss the scenario presented on
page 385 with family members. Their insights and viewpoints may
help you prepare for your class presentation.
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| Chapter
12 Review |
The Chapter Review (pp. 386-387) in
your textbook lists all the Key Expectations you have covered
in the chapter and identifies the specific lessons in which the
knowledge and skills have been developed.
You can use the Key Expectations list to help you create a personal
study guide in preparation for an end-of-chapter test:
- Copy down the list of learning expectations from your textbook.
- For each learning expectation, locate the appropriate lesson(s)
in the unit where the expectation was covered. These are identified
in parentheses at the end of each expectation (e.g., 12.2).
- Flip to the appropriate lesson(s) for each expectation and
make study notes of the key ideas or skills you learned.
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