Educational Resources

Hey, Power Pals! The Cooperative Gang is here with powerful and fun resources just for you. You’ll find coloring sheets, puzzles, crossword games, exciting experiments, and more to make learning about electricity extra fun. Let’s explore all the cool activities waiting for you and keep the adventure going wherever you are!

Exciting Experiments

Hands-on science projects and deep-dive learning guides.

Circuits & Electricity

Electric Play Dough: Build conductive and insulating circuits using dough.

Make an Electromagnet: Learn how electricity creates magnetism using a battery, wire, and a nail.

Art Bot: Assemble a wobbly robot that creates its own drawings.

Energy & Physical Forces

Build a Sizzling Solar Oven: Harness the sun's power to bake treats in a pizza box.

Bouncing Basketballs: A physics investigation into energy loss during dribbling.

Bouncing Balls Investigation: Testing how different materials affect potential and kinetic energy.

Sundial: Using the Earth's rotation to tell time with shadows.

Falling Lemon: A classic experiment demonstrating the laws of inertia.

Tallest Paper Tower: An engineering challenge to build stable structures using only paper and tape.

Marshmallow Madness: Investigating how air pressure changes the shape of objects.

Dancing Ghost & Jumping Tissue Paper: Creating movement using only static electricity.

Floating Paperclips: Exploring the "skin" of water through surface tension.

Chemistry & Nature

Exploding Lunch Bag & Mini Bottle Rocket: Projects exploring chemical reactions, thrust, and gas pressure.

Coke & Mentos: A materials science project on explosive physical reactions.

Skittles Rainbow: Discover how molecules move differently in warm versus cold water.

Rain Cloud in a Jar: A visual way to understand the water cycle and weather.

Salty Water Freeze: Investigating why salt changes the freezing point of water

Why Does Fruit Turn Brown?: Testing how different liquids affect enzymatic reactions.

Clean Pennies with Vinegar: Using acid-base chemistry to remove copper oxide.

How to Make Slime: A hands-on look at polymers and non-Newtonian fluids.

Coloring Sheets

Safety lessons and characters to print and color.

The Cooperative Gang Adventures

Downed Lines are Dangerous (Cooper the owl)

Don't Play on the Big Green Box (Ty the beaver)

Hunt Smart: Choose Trees, Not Poles (Ivy the fox)

Look Up, Stay Back (Cooper the owl)

Know Before You Dig (Rae the armadillo)

Character Profiles

Lineman Larry Full Image

Adventure Lineman Larry (Color and cut-out version)

Adventure Kilowatt Katie (Color and cut-out version)

Word Searches

Puzzles that reinforce important electric and safety vocabulary.

The Cooperative Gang Searches

Downed Lines Search

Hunt Smart Search

Overhead Dangers Search

Underground Safety Search

Character Searches

Kilowatt Katie’s Electric Search

Cat & Duck’s Co-op Search

Printable Puzzles

Activity PDF Files

Logic puzzles and math-based activities.

M&M Math: Using candy to learn statistics and frequency.

AI vs. Human Images: A guide to testing if you can spot AI-generated photos.

Does Color Affect Taste?: A printable experiment log for testing your senses.

Featured Series: Cat, Duck, & Larry

Deep-dive stories featuring your favorite cooperative characters.

Youtube Videos

PDF Storybooks

Cat & Duck and the Electric Cooperative: Remastered

Cat & Duck Electric Safety

A Lineworker's Day

These resources are for you!

Use the downloadable files above to take your electrical knowledge to a whole new level.

Fast Fact: AC vs DC

Electricity can move in two ways:
AC (Alternating Current): The electrons move back and forth, switching direction.
DC (Direct Current): The electrons move in one direction only.