State Grid Taizhou Power Supply Company recently held a workshop at Huaqiao Town Central Primary School in Sanmen county, Zhejiang province, as part of the "Power Love Classroom" volunteer program. The workshop combined a lesson on electrical safety with a hands-on circuit-building exercise for students at the rural school.
At the event, model workers, skilled artisans and young volunteers served as guest instructors. Drawing on examples from home and school, they explained how electricity is generated and used in daily life. The lesson also covered how to use electricity safely, save energy, stay safe during thunderstorms and respond to an electric shock.
The instructors used animations and examples to illustrate common unsafe practices involving electricity. Students took part in a question-and-answer session and discussed the hazards shown in the examples, along with ways to use electricity safely at home and at school.
After the lesson, volunteers provided students with batteries, wires, bulbs, switches and other materials for an experiment. They explained the basic principles of series and parallel circuits, then guided the students step by step through the process of connecting the components.
The students tested the circuits they had assembled and used them to light up small bulbs. By working with the components themselves, they put the principles covered in the lesson into practice and saw how the parts of a circuit work together to power a bulb.
The company plans to expand its volunteer activities under the "Power Love Classroom" program. It will continue to offer regular lessons on electricity and electrical safety for young people in rural schools and communities.
