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- Kindergarten
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Students investigate how magnets attract and repel. 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 are introduced to the concept of electric currents. In groups, they develop their own game board to test different circuits to determine if they are complete. They record their observations of the energy transfer between a hotplate, toaster, hair dryer and doorbell. To end the lesson, they discuss how electric currents relate to forces. Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students use a variety of objects to test for ability to "stick" to a magnet. They perform an experiment to see that electricity in circuits can produce light, heat, sound, and magnetic effects. They discover magnets attract and repel each other, as well as other kinds of materials. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students determine how electricity is useful but also can be dangerous. They observe a teacher demonstration of the hazards associated with touching wires using a puppet, batteries, wire, and a light bulb. They devise a list of electricity safety rules and learn an electricity safety song. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students examine the paths that electrical currents travel. They create a current of electricity using flashlights, bulbs, batteries, wires and tape. They determine how to create a closed circuit that will light the bulb. They apply the concept to a light switch. 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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- 2nd
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Students experiment with ballons to see which objects will cling and which objects will not. They use an assortment of objects, paper clips, pennies, button, scraps of paper, or puffed cereal. They make predictions and record results. 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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- 3rd - 5th
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Students demonstrate a comprehension of the properties, position, and motion of objects and materials, and of light, heat, electricity, and magnetism. They use materials to assemble an electric circuit and test materials, including magnets and compasses. Students use a digital camera and a digital video camera to chronicle their work. Full Review »
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