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- 6th
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Students brainstorm facts about electrical safety and create posters that include graphics and text about electrical safety at home, work, and play. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students complete static electricity challenges by rotating through stations to solve problems; based on their contributions, students create questions for the class database for others to answer. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students discuss the various everyday items they use that rely on electricity. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students discover what an electrical engineer does by drafting a project with a team. They state the type of electricity and circuits they use in their project. They also calculate how many watts are needed for an hour of electricity. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students investigate the subject of electrical safety. The dangers of fire, accidents, and other hazards is covered. They brainstorm in discussion groups to propose safety practices that could be implemented. Students then compile a list of procedures to be used in the home, school, and community. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students become aware of electrical hazards around their homes, in the school and community that may result in fire, injury , death and/or loss of property. They distinguish between electrical and non-electrical items as well as the hazards of connecting or inserting objects into electrical outlets. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students, after brainstorming the importance of electrical safety and identifying potential electrical hazards, apply safety practices at home with the use of a Home Electrical Safety Checklist. They assist others in the classroom with safety procedures in their particular homes as well. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students create a newsletter about electricity. They view a completed newsletter and discuss its information and format and research the Internet to find facts about electricity. After researching their facts, they write a rough draft of their newsletter with five facts about electricity and safety tips and use Ultimate Writing and Creativity Program to create their newsletters. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students identify hypotheses related to static electricity, to begin to test the hypotheses, to begin to develop conclusions related to observations, to demonstrate that like charges repel and unlike charges attract each other, to name protons and electrons as the two kinds of electrical charges, and to define static electricity as a type of electricity produced when objects gain or lose electrons. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students study the discovery of the electron and how it led to other inventions and discoveries concerning electrical current. They observe several demonstrations concerning electricity. In one activity, they determine whether or not a galvanometer is a reliable lie detector test. Full Review »