“Our Hidden Powers: Working Together for a Planet in Balance” is a story where we learn about different forms of renewable energy through the lens of five characters. The characters, Windy, Sunny, Terry, Kai, and Ignis, represent wind, sun, earth, water, and fire. They learn that they work together to make renewable, sustainable energy.
The story begins with Windy and Sunny, who are playing with a frisbee. Meanwhile, Terry and Kai are building a sand castle. Terry and Kai finish their sand castle and want to join in on the frisbee fun. Ignis flies out of a volcano only wanting to play with the others but ends up ruining the sand castle and the frisbee. He landed on the sand castle as he approached land and caught the frisbee mid-air, causing it to melt.
Ignis bursts into tears and runs into the forest. Terry, Kai, and Windy had upset Ignis, making him feel worthless. Ignis has now set the forest on fire and wishes to be more like the others. Ignis begins to explain how the other’s powers help keep everything going and he just causes a ruckus. Ignis thinks that all he does is create volcanic eruptions and burn down forests. Sunny tries to comfort Ignis and tells him that he has lots of special powers. Ignis provides geothermal energy, which comes from the earth’s inner core. Geothermal energy heats the earth to make it a safe environment for humans to thrive. Ignis helps Terry with the earth and has been there by Terry’s side since the beginning of time. Ignis was the reason magma made such an impact on our earth we live on today! He melted the magma, which moved continents, built mountain ranges and create volcanoes. Magma is formed when rock is melted around earth’s inner core.
Terry explains that the heat that melts through him can extract renewable energy. Ignis doesn’t know what renewable energy is so Windy explained that renewable energy is energy that is good for the earth and doesn’t run out. Windy makes her wind turbines spin so that humans can convert her wind power into energy. Kai explains all of his powers to Ignis and the others. Sunny explains how they all have to work together to make as much renewable energy as possible. Ignis has learned that he is so much more than just an object.
All of them begin to rebuild their sand castle. Ignis feel much better after knowing he can do all these things! The moral of the story is that you can do much more than you think you can and that our earth is precious and must be protected. At first, Ignis thought he just destroyed everything he came near and now realizes how powerful he is. You can do anything you want to when you work together and the different forms of renewable energy are a powerful and important thing to use.