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\nWhy do some buildings have lightning rods? Scholars explore the movement and attraction of opposing electrical charges through a simulation of a lightning rod. They control the cloud height, charge separation, and if the lightning rod is...\n
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\nLightning Rod\n

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\nIn this lightning rod worksheet, students make a lightning rod out of batteries, breadboard, light bulbs, wires, and more. Students also answer 2 questions.\n
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\nHow Lightening Works\n

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\nAnnotated diagrams explain the distribution of charged particles in clouds that can lead to lightening bolts. This is a super short slide show but it is useful for explaining the phenomenon and safety mechanisms.\n
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\nLightning\n

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\nStudents study lightening and the history behind how it was used for electricity.  In this electricity lesson students complete several experiments on the invention of the lightning rod.\n
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\nBen Franklin Timeline\n

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\nCelebrate inventions such as lightning rods, bifocals, and stoves with a Ben Franklin Day. Young historians conduct research and write a paragraph about an accomplishment of Benjamin Franklin including an illustration...\n
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\nBenjamin Franklin - Master of Electricity The Kite Experiment and the Invention of the Lightning Rod\n

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\nStudents study Benjamin Franklin including who he was, what he invented and his experiment.  In this inventive instructional activity students follow the steps of Ben Franklin and build a Leyden jar.\n
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\nDIY Lightning Experiment! Make a Shocking Capacitor\n

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\nIf you need a project to add a little spark to your physics class, why not build a capacitor? A video from a larger physics playlist demonstrates how a capacitor works and how to make one from easily sourced materials. As an added bonus,...\n
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\nGreat Minds: Benjamin Franklin, Founding Nerd\n

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\nDid Benjamin Franklin really fly a kite to discover electricity? Answers this question and many others with a video that discusses Franklin and his contributions to science. There isn't time to cover all of his inventions and...\n
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\nFall 2004 Midterm Exam #2 - Electricity and Magnetism\n

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\nWritten for a college physics course, this midterm examination deals with electric and magnetic fields. When taking this test, learners answer multiple choice questions, solve problems, and analyze a variety of attractive diagrams....\n
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\nRod, Penny, and Lightning: The Straight Story\n

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\nStudents review the concept of a movement story. As a class, they practice moving in straight, curved and zigzag pathways while making frozen body shapes of the characters in the story. To end the lesson, they must complete the same...\n
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\nBlowing in the Wind\n

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\nLearners identify and interpret maps, graphs, charts, tables and political cartoons. Students identify what a compass rose is and review its meaning in relation to standard directions. Learners design their own weathervanes. Students...\n
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\nScaling Down: Effects of Size on Behavior\n

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\nTwo activities explore the concept of size, especially small sizes down to the nano. Scholars practice determining volume, mass, and density and calculate exponential increases and decreases. They then predict and test the effect of size...\n
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\nGetting A Charge Out of the Sky\n

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\nStudents investigate electricity from the sky. In this electricity lesson, students participate in an experiment to simulate the electric charges from the sky. Students discuss results.\n
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\nBen Franklin\n

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\nReaders are asked to use the provided graphic organizer to list the main idea and supporting ideas in a passage about the inventions of Benjamin Franklin.\n
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\nThe Sign of the Beaver Vocabulary\n

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\nA series of activities based on Elizabeth George Speare's The Sign of The Beaver takes your class through vocabulary, reading comprehension, and literary analysis. A good packet or collection of assignments for a reading circle.\n
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\nStatic Electricity: Matching\n

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\nDiscovery Education has provided a series of quick quizzes on several topics. Here is one on static electricity. Young scientists match eight terms to their definitions. You can view the solution right from the page, so if you want to...\n
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\nWeather Lessons: Explore the Possibilities\n

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\nLooking to the sky isn't just for day dreamers.The weather is a fascinating way to explore science and history.\n
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\nAmerican Inventors\n

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\nIn this nineteenth-century American inventors online interactive worksheet, students read paragraphs about Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Graham Bell and their inventions and answer comprehensive questions. Students...\n
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\nScience Hits Activity\n

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\nYoung scholars listen to a song that teaches the elements of the periodic table and write their own song to be used as an aid in remembering scientific information.\n
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\nJohnson, Louis and Ali\n

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\nStudents research the lives of Jack Johnson, Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis. In groups, they analyze the life of one of these boxers. They create their own presentation and share with the class.\n
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\nWisdom of Ben Franklin\n

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\nStudents recognize the wit and wisdom of Ben Franklin. They examine a list of proverbs of Ben Franklin and select a proverb to paraphrase. In addition, they create a modern proverb that has the same meaning as the one they picked by...\n
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\nAmericana Trivia Game\n

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\nIn this American history game, students use the blank game board and the trivia question cards to play a board game that tests knowledge of American history. There are 28 trivia questions and full directions.\n
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\nLearners explore the scientific career of Benjamin Franklin. For this science lesson, students discuss Franklin's correspondence with other scientists and write letters describing Benjamin Franklin's experiments.\n
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\nAmerican Inventors\n

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\nFor this online interactive American inventors worksheet, students respond to 10 fill in the blank and multiple choice questions regarding the information included in the provided paragraph.\n
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