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1,630 Current electricity Lesson Plans
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- 5th - 6th
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Students explore electrical currents. In small groups they experiment with various electrical components, and write a paragraph about what they discover about electricity that they did not know before. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students build on what they already know and classify examples of electricity in their lives into two categories: static and current electricity. They explore the difference between static and current electricity and provide examples for each. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students examine the relationship among units of electricity. They measure volts, amps, and ohms using a multimeter, illustrate the calculations through a series of experiments, and analyze the data to develop generalizations relating these terms. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students explore static and current electricity, simple open and closed circuits and the scientific contributions of Franklin and Edison. They participate in hands-on activities and create a working Electric Board. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students study current electricity while constructing a simple electric circuit. They build a galvanic cell to examine the concepts of voltage, current and resistance. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine static and current electricity. They list items in their daily lives that utilize electricity, discuss how life would be different without electricity, and in small groups answer questions. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore current electricity and the necessary conditions for the existence of an electric current. They listen to a teacher-led lecture, and construct a simple electric circuit and a galvanic cell to demonstrate voltage, current, and resistance. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine static and current electricity, and discuss what their lives would be like without electricity. They listen to a teacher-led lecture about electrons and atoms, and explore static electricity using a comb or a balloon and styrofoam pellets. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students explore magnets as fundamental parts of generators and how they are used to produce current electricity. They distinguish between the north and south pole of magnets and the difference between repel and attract. Students identify uses of magnets in electricity and communications. 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 »

