How Public Utilities Work: Student Edition: A Complete K-12 STEM Curriculum on Energy, Rates, Consumer Rights & Careers
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How Public Utilities Work: Student Edition: A Complete K-12 STEM Curriculum on Energy, Rates, Consumer Rights & Careers
Sale price
$38.99
Regular price $46.99
Every household pays a utility bill. Almost no one knows how it works.
How Public Utilities Work is the K-12 STEM workbook that finally teaches students how electricity, natural gas, and water systems are built, regulated, and paid for. Across 34 lessons, students learn what their meter measures, why fixed charges look the way they do, how rate cases get decided, what to do when the power goes out, and how the people who keep the lights on actually do it.
This is the Student Edition: a consumable workbook designed for use directly by students. Each student should have their own copy. (The companion instructor edition, which includes teaching notes, answer keys, and differentiation guidance, is available separately under the same title.)
What's inside:
• 34 standards-aligned lessons across 5 units
• Activities, discussion prompts, and real-world scenarios for every lesson
• Multiple-choice, short-answer, and bonus-challenge assessments
• 39 in-depth career profiles across the utility field
• Three sample utility bills (electric, gas, combined) with full breakdowns
• Complete glossary of key terms used across every lesson
• Formula and calculation reference for energy, gas, and water
• Flexible scheduling guide for full-year and shortened programs
• Standards alignment summary (NGSS, ELA, Math, Social Studies, CTE)
The five units:
1. Understanding Utilities (what utilities are and who watches them)
2. Energy at Home (bills, efficiency, time-of-use, large loads)
3. Safety and Emergencies (electric, gas, storms, outages, 811)
4. Rules, Rights, and Regulation (rate cases, affordability, customer protections)
5. The Grid Today and Tomorrow (reliability, solar, electric vehicles, climate)
Designed for grades 5 through 12. Activities scale across grade bands, supporting foundational identification for younger learners, applied analysis for middle grades, and policy reasoning for high school students.
Independently reviewed and credentialed:
• STEM.org Reviewed educational media
• Published by a STEM.org Accredited organization
• Best in STEM recipient, 2026-2027
Electricity, natural gas, and water are the only services every household pays for every month, yet almost no K-12 curriculum teaches what those bills actually mean or how the systems behind them are governed. How Public Utilities Work closes that gap with content students will use as adults.
About the author: Odogwu Linton, Esq. is a Maryland-licensed attorney and the founder of Utility Campus, LLC, a publisher of standards-aligned curriculum on public utility literacy.
How Public Utilities Work is the K-12 STEM workbook that finally teaches students how electricity, natural gas, and water systems are built, regulated, and paid for. Across 34 lessons, students learn what their meter measures, why fixed charges look the way they do, how rate cases get decided, what to do when the power goes out, and how the people who keep the lights on actually do it.
This is the Student Edition: a consumable workbook designed for use directly by students. Each student should have their own copy. (The companion instructor edition, which includes teaching notes, answer keys, and differentiation guidance, is available separately under the same title.)
What's inside:
• 34 standards-aligned lessons across 5 units
• Activities, discussion prompts, and real-world scenarios for every lesson
• Multiple-choice, short-answer, and bonus-challenge assessments
• 39 in-depth career profiles across the utility field
• Three sample utility bills (electric, gas, combined) with full breakdowns
• Complete glossary of key terms used across every lesson
• Formula and calculation reference for energy, gas, and water
• Flexible scheduling guide for full-year and shortened programs
• Standards alignment summary (NGSS, ELA, Math, Social Studies, CTE)
The five units:
1. Understanding Utilities (what utilities are and who watches them)
2. Energy at Home (bills, efficiency, time-of-use, large loads)
3. Safety and Emergencies (electric, gas, storms, outages, 811)
4. Rules, Rights, and Regulation (rate cases, affordability, customer protections)
5. The Grid Today and Tomorrow (reliability, solar, electric vehicles, climate)
Designed for grades 5 through 12. Activities scale across grade bands, supporting foundational identification for younger learners, applied analysis for middle grades, and policy reasoning for high school students.
Independently reviewed and credentialed:
• STEM.org Reviewed educational media
• Published by a STEM.org Accredited organization
• Best in STEM recipient, 2026-2027
Electricity, natural gas, and water are the only services every household pays for every month, yet almost no K-12 curriculum teaches what those bills actually mean or how the systems behind them are governed. How Public Utilities Work closes that gap with content students will use as adults.
About the author: Odogwu Linton, Esq. is a Maryland-licensed attorney and the founder of Utility Campus, LLC, a publisher of standards-aligned curriculum on public utility literacy.