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From Sunlight to Electric Current
Learners explore concept of current in electrical circuits. They examine how energy from the sun can be used to power everyday items, including vehicles.
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Electrical Circuits - Current & Voltage in Series Circuits
Students investigate the relationship between current and voltage in a series circuit. In this physics activity, students measure the current across each light bulb. They predict what happens to the circuit if one bulb is blows out.
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Electricity – Ohm’s Law
Students investigate the relationship between voltage and current. In this physics instructional activity, students observe and collect data from the experiment. They graph the result and share them to class.
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OHM's Law
Students study the relationship between current, voltage and resistance in a series circuit. In this investigative lesson students watch a demonstration and see how voltage is measured and see what OHM's law is.
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Electron Current Flow
Students observe how an electrical current passes through a conductor and the relationship between voltage and resistance. For this investigative lesson students participate in an activity that allows them to see the correlation between...
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Making a Battery
Fifth graders make a battery. In this physical science lesson plan, 5th graders word in pairs make the battery. Students follow 4 steps to create the battery.
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Kirchhoff's Laws: Sample Circuit
For this circuits worksheet, students use circuit drawings to help understand how to set up equations using Kirchhoff's laws. This worksheet has 12 fill in the blank questions.
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Kirchhoff's Laws: DC Circuits with Capacitors
In this circuits learning exercise, students calculate the charge on the capacitor based on the circuit drawing given. This learning exercise has 11 problems to solve.
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Resistance, Wattage, and Brightness
In this light bulb activity, students determine how the thickness of a filament influences changes in a parallel circuit. This activity has 18 problems to solve.
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Cell Potentials and Reduction Potentials
In this cell potentials worksheet, students review reduction potential, the equation to calculate the cell potential, and voltage. This worksheet has 18 problems to solve.
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Circuit Basics
In this circuits worksheet, students compare voltage, current, and resistance. Students draw a battery with a resistor, switch, and light bulb. This worksheet has 6 short answer, 1 matching, and 6 drawing questions.
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2010 Electricity
In this electricity worksheet, high schoolers determine if the circuits shown are parallel or series, calculate the voltage, and the power used by the light bulbs. This worksheet has 11 problems to solve.
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Electricity Review
In this electricity worksheet, students review topics related to electricity such as circuits, voltage, electric fields, and resistors. This worksheet has 21 problems to solve.
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Electricity
In this electricity worksheet, students compare open and closed circuits, calculate voltage, and determine total resistance is resistors are parallel or series in a circuit. This worksheet has 19 problems to solve.
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Second Order ODE's
In this second order ODE's worksheet, learners solve 2 different problems that are related to determining the second order ODE's in each equation given. First, they set up an equation where the applied force is the cosine plus the sine...
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Activity Six -- Observing Magnetic Effects on Particle Beams (Student Page ) A Physics Lesson in Observation
This student page lists several steps in teaching observation with an oscilloscope and bar magnets.
The students can compare bar magnets with circular magnets on a particle beam . Students will learn more about focusing beams in particle...
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Batteries in Series: Voltage and Light Intensity
Students participate in a hands-on activity to explore the relationship between the number of batteries in a series circuit and its voltage. Students identify the relationship between two variables and plot points on a graph.
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Electrons on the Move
Fourth graders study current electricity while constructing a simple electric circuit. They build a galvanic cell to examine the concepts of voltage, current and resistance.
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Ohm's Law
Students explain the meaning of Ohm's Law, and plot a graph of voltage versus current, by explaining how the slope is the resistance of the circuit.