About Alliant Energy Kids

As part of our commitment to education, we’ve developed a teaching tool called “Alliant Energy Kids” that stresses energy safety and energy conservation.

Through interactive and engaging activities, your students can learn about electricity and natural gas, how to use them safely and wisely, and the importance of conserving energy.

Consisting of one unit on energy safety and one unit on energy conservation, the Alliant Energy Kids curriculum is designed for students in third and fourth grades.

Both units help address national standards in science, health, and language arts, so this resource can be incorporated into many different classroom settings.

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Each teaching unit has been designed to complement a classroom presentation by a guest speaker from Alliant Energy — i.e., one pre-presentation lesson and one post-presentation lesson in each unit. At the same time, both of a unit’s lessons are stand-alone, so you can use one or the other, or both!

To help you integrate them, the lesson plans include learning objectives, a list of applicable national standards, steps for the lesson process, and accompanying materials for the overhead or for handouts.

Also included among the lessons are suggested modifications that allow you to extend the curriculum to other subject areas or to reflect different abilities, interests, and learning styles.

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About us

Alliant Energy is an energy holding company headquartered in Madison, Wis. Our regulated utility operations serve more than 1.4 million customers in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

As part of our commitment to education, we’ve developed a teaching tool that stresses energy safety and energy conservation.

Through interactive and engaging activities, elementary school students can learn about electricity and natural gas, how to use them safely and wisely, and how and why it’s important to conserve energy.

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About our Web site

All the articles found on this Web site were written by Alliant Energy. All content is reviewed and approved by our team of energy efficiency and safety experts.

Our interactive games and puzzles were developed by Geonetric Technologies.

Our illustrations were done by Barb Jacobs, a talented artist from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Photos on our site were taken by our company photographer or obtained from U.S. Department of Energy archives.

To help our visitors find the information they need, we also provide links to other informative Web sites, as well as brochures and fact sheets produced by other knowledgeable organizations.

We generally limit these “outside” links to government agencies, trade associations and non-profit advocacy groups, and we make every effort to ensure that the information they provide is accurate and up-to-date.