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Worksheet
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Simple Circuits Lab

For Students 6th - 8th
For this electrical circuit worksheet, learners follow a pre-planned lab activity to demonstrate a series and parallel circuit. They record their observations and answer 4 questions. This document is printable and the answers are not...
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Electricity and Circuits

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Electrify your classroom as you lead pupils through a series of steps to demonstrate basic principles of electricity and magnetism. They design a simple circuit and test this for static electricity and current electricity. Next, they...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Get Connected!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A great lesson introduces your youngsters to electricity. They use internet links, streaming video, and engage in hands-on activities to understand what electricity is and how it works. They build a circuit board, and construct a variety...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Series-Parallel DC Circuits Series and Parallel DC Circuits

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical learning exercise, students draw a schematic design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding of series and parallel DC circuits before answering a series of 41 open-ended questions. Students interpret...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Circuits and Electromagnets- A Total Inquiry Investigation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate how electromagnets work.  In this circuits and electromagnets lesson, students complete a series of four challenges using electricity and magnetism.  
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Interactive
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Performance-Based Assessments for DC Circuit Competencies

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this DC circuits worksheet, students are assessed given 31 schematics of DC circuits and they determine the given conditions, the parameters and an analysis of each.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Series and Parallel Circuits

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the differences between a parallel and a series circuit.In this current lesson students complete several experiments using a light bulb.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Series and Parallel Circuits

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Pupils study simple circuits. After a demonstration of parallel and serial circuit designs, students work in teams to predict the difference between two circuit designs. They build examples of two different circuits and test...
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Parallel Circuits

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners investigate the way an electrical circuit works. For this physics lesson, students use voltmeters and ammeters to measure voltage. They construct a circuit using provided circuit kits.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ohm's Laws

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the relationship of resistance, voltage and current in series and parallel circuits. Then they discover Ohm's Law by constructing series circuits with one resistor and putting the resultant resistance, current and...
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Interactive
Curated OER

AC Motor Control Circuits

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this electrical worksheet, students answer a series of 23 open-ended questions after interpreting schematic drawings of AC motor circuits. This worksheet is printable and there are on-line answers to the questions.
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Assessment
Curated OER

Midterm Exam #1, Electricity Concepts

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
The physics department at The University of Hawaii has designed midterm exams for their college physics courses. This version deals with electricity concepts. It requires learners to calculate conversions, capacitance, and potential...
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Worksheet
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Typical Conceptual Questions for Physics I - Waves, Electricity, and Magnetism

For Students 9th - 12th
This wave and electromagnetism assignment is so thorough, it could be used as a unit exam. The first section of it covers wave concepts. The next section addresses static electricity. There is a section that deals with electric circuits....
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Lesson Plan
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Please Turn Up the Lights!

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discuss series and parallel circuits and design an investigation to test a hypothesis on total resistance of series and parallel circuits in combination. After discussion, groups design their experiments, run tests, and...
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Interactive
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Series-Parallel Combination AC circuits

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this AC circuits worksheet, students answer 26 questions about series-parallel combined circuits,. They find capacitance, resistance, total impedance, the output voltage and they complete schematics of the circuits.
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Lesson Plan
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Holiday Lights and Circuits

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students create a simple circuit using batteries, wires, and light bulbs. In this circuits lesson plan, students learn the difference between a series circuit and a parallel circuit and connect it to holiday lights they use in their home.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Electric Analogies

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
We can see the result of electricity  but not the process itself. The simulation compares electric circuits to a water tower and water wheel cycle. Young scientists adjust the height of the tower, the amount of resistance, and if the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Cells in Series and Parallel

For Students 9th - 12th
In this cells in series and parallel worksheet, students connect dry cells in a series and in parallel. Students chart their observations in a given table. Students answer several questions demonstrating their understanding of cells in...
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Worksheet
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V, R, and I in Parallel Circuits

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this parallel circuits worksheet, students learn parallel circuits basics and determine how to calculate total resistance and total current. This worksheet has 6 matching and 15 problems to solve.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Resistance In Series And Parallel Circuits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Pupils investigate electric circuits. In this electricity activity, students observe illumination in a series and parallel circuits. They predict and calculate the resistance in each type of circuit using a voltmeter.
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PPT
Mr. E. Science

Electric Charges and Current

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Resistance is not futile, it is voltage divided by current. The presentation goes in depth covering electric charges, conductors, insulators, electric fields, static charges, and circuits. The lesson is the 12th in a series of 26.
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Interactive
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Parallel DC Circuits

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this circuits worksheet, students answer 24 questions about parallel DC circuits including finding the current drawn by resistors, the total resistance, and the voltage impressed across each resistor in the circuit. Students also...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Brown Bag Science

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students discover, through the discovery method, how electricity works. They construct a simple circuit and a parallel circuit, make an electrical motor work and add a switch to turn it on and off.
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Lesson Plan
Rochester Institute of Technology

Electrical Energy

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
My friend told me how electricity is measured and I was like Watt! In the hands-on activity, learners explore electricity by building circuits, both parallel and series. They also determine how increasing the number of light bulbs and...

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