1. By Amanda

2. 1) Firstly, electricity is made at a power plant by huge generators. It is made with either coal, water, natural gas or wind. 2) It gets sent through transformers to increase the energy and push the power long distances. 3) The electricity goes through high-voltage transmission lines that stretch across the country. 4) It stops at a substation, where the energy is lowered so it gets to be sent to our power poles.

3. This is how electricity gets to your house.

4. Electricity travels in a circuit and is carried by electrons. Electrons are negatively charged particles which carry electricity as they move. What the electrons do is that since they are negative they are attracted to positive things. When they are close to negative things they repel and try to move back to the positive things. This makes the electrons keep moving and so electricity moves.

5. The Speed of Electricity and Other Facts Electricity travels very fast. It travels at 186,000 miles per second. If you travelled that fast, you could travel around the world eight times in the time it takes to turn on a light switch. A bolt of lightning can measure up to three million volts. Electricity always tries to get to the ground! Birds can sit on wires because they aren’t “grounded” (no part of them is touching the ground). So if they land on the ground they will get electrocuted. When the wind turns the rotor blades of a windmill, it spins a turbine inside a small generator to produce electricity