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New Zealand Electricity Story
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New Zealand Electricity Story
The Journey of a Spark
Read the story, then solve the clues about how electricity travels. The story is imagined, but the electricity journey is based on real parts of New Zealand’s power system.
Miri flicked on the lamp beside her bed. “Where did that little spark come from?” she wondered.
Far away, rainwater rushed down a river and through a power station’s turbines. The spinning turbines helped a generator make electricity. Other power stations around Aotearoa use heat from deep underground, wind, or sunlight. No single source has to do the whole job.
The electricity began its long trip along the national grid. Tall transmission lines carried it over hills and across the countryside. The lines were like busy highways, except they carried electricity instead of cars. Some electricity travelled a long way; some was made closer to where people needed it.
At a substation, equipment changed the electricity so it could travel safely through local distribution lines. Smaller lines carried it along streets and towards homes. Before the electricity reached Miri’s lamp, it passed through the wiring in her house.
The next morning, Miri spotted a wire lying across a footpath after a storm. She remembered the safety message from her family: never go near a fallen wire. She took care around the hazard. The spark’s journey was exciting—but electricity was never something to play with.
1.What first made Miri wonder about electricity?
2.Which set lists only energy sources named in the story?
- Coal, petrol and waves
- Moving water, underground heat, wind and sunlight
- Wood, batteries and gas
3.Put these events in the order electricity travels: home wiring; power station generator; local distribution lines; transmission lines; substation.
4.The story compares transmission lines to busy highways. What do the lines carry instead of cars?
5.True or false: The story says every part of New Zealand’s electricity is made at one power station.
TrueFalse
6.Why does electricity go through a substation before travelling along local distribution lines?
7.Find one phrase in the story that makes the electricity journey sound like an adventure or trip.
8.What did Miri do when she saw a fallen wire?
9.Why do you think the author included the fallen-wire event at the end of the story? Use a detail from the story in your answer.
10.Write two or three sentences describing the next safe step Miri could take after telling an adult. Keep well away from the wire in your answer.
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