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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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- 6th
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Students define static electricity, and conduct experiments that examine what happens when neutral, positively charged, and/or negatively charged objects come into contact with one another. They identify what causes two objects to attract or repel. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students investigate the role of electricity in the world today. They also explore conductors and insulators and how batteries work. 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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- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to how to practice science experiments safely outside of school. In groups, they create a poster showing the safety guidelines and responses to specific situations should they occur. They also practice using different scientific tools properly. 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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- 5th
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Students explore a simple circuit. They experiment with a wire, light bulb and a bettery to see how many ways they can make the light bulb light up. Students describe how they were or were not ablt to light the bulb. 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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- 4th
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Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the investigation of the properties of static electricity and focus upon how it is created naturally in nature. They conduct research using a variety of resources and do a simple experiment to attract or repel different materials. Full Review »
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