Education
Northwest Sources of Electricity Activity Book
Activities and information to help you explore different ways to generate electricity, discover where electricity comes from and consider sources of electricity for our clean energy future.
Climate Change & Carbon Free Electricity Generation
How Hydropower Moves From Nature to Your Home
Be Power Wise
Ways Electricity is Generated
Renewable Energy Discovery (REDi) Island
Explore a world where rivers, tides, and waves help power our communities, monitor our environment, and provide clean drinking water.
REDi Island
An app full of water power waystations will quench your curiosity about climate change, clean energy, the water cycle, and ways to tap the power of rivers and oceans.
Hydro Hollow
Conventional hydropower can store water behind a dam, then release it to generate electricity when it’s most needed.
River Ramble
Run-off river hydropower generates electricity by using only a river’s natural water flow.
Hydro Heights
Pumped storage hydropower generates electricity by storing and moving water between two reservoirs.
Curriculum & Kits
The Nature of Water Power
Grades 4-8
This curriculum has multiple units and lessons to choose from to explore how the force of falling water is used to produce mechanical energy and hydropower.
Make Your Own Hydropower
Grades 7-12
A kit that includes everything needed to complete a functioning hydropower model to light an LED.
How Energy Moves from Nature to Your Home
Grades 4-8
This video with discussion prompts follows the journey of hydropower from a water drop falling as snow to an energy watt traveling on an electricity superhighway to homes and schools. A corresponding poster is also available.
Matty the Water Molecule
This online game for grades 3 – 5 is a narrated story that supports learning about the water cycle and extreme weather while also supporting development of literacy skills.
Teacher & Student Opportunities
Electricity Production Teacher Training & Kit
March 2026 — Open to all elementary teachers at no cost! Aligned with Next Generation Science Standards, the curriculum introduces students to the future of clean energy to include modules with solar, wind and hydropower.
FWEE Stem Career Academies
June 2026 — For secondary students. These academies explore clean energy careers with hands-on activities like producing hydropower, racing solar cars, flying drones and more. Meet engineers, linemen, mechanics, natural resource specialist and others. Applications open February 2026.
Hydropower Virtual Elementary and Secondary Teacher Training
TBD in 2026 — Teacher Training will be returning in 2026, and we’re excited to share more soon. FWEE is currently updating content, adding new classroom resources, and expanding grade-level options to make next year’s trainings even more valuable for educators. Stay tuned for announcements and registration details at FWEE.org, where all information will be posted as it becomes available.
Hydropower Teacher Training & Kit
Join us for an engaging virtual training that brings renewable energy to life in your classroom! Teachers receive credits and hydropower science kits upon completion.