Our education program is a community service priority. For example, I might send a wildlife biologist into the classroom to talk about mitigation we're doing around Spada Lake. Karen Hertz, 4th grade teacher at Crystal Springs Elementary in the Northshore School District, said that with the help of a teacher from the PUD, her students recently made light bulbs in teams of four while learning about circuits and parallels. They like using the authentic materials, the real vocabulary. It's good for students to see how science applies to the real world.
Kids feel like they are practicing for adult jobs.
Hertz, who has invited PUD teachers into her classroom for two years now, said the program packs a lot of science into a short time, and she plans to bring them back every year. All of our educational resources are geared to provide teachers with credible, reliable, relevant information and the activities to support that information.