Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Current (Electricity)
Wikipedia offers detailed information on electrical current, including many hyperlinked related terms.
Upper Canada District School Board
Tom Stretton's Advanced Placement Chemistry: Electrochemistry
This online textbook chapter provides learners with advanced-level material on electrochemistry.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Night Without Light
This animation discusses light and the properties of electricity in a storybook format. The theme of the story is that a family lost their power, so the animations discuss power and electricity and how it travels into homes.
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California Energy Commission: Coloring Book
At this site from California Energy Commission, you can learn more about electricity safety with this coloring book. Teach children how to use electricity safely.
Math Science Nucleus
I. Science Ma Te: Integrating Science, Math and Technology
This site offers a wealth of online textbook-related materials that encourage the discovery of science in the world around us. Enter the site to access material on specific topics. Each section contains reading material (complete with...
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: Charges and Electricity
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining charges and electricity. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along...
PBS
Pbs: Electric Consumer Appliances Proliferate
This PBS site provides a background of how the post-World War 1 US economy exploded with the advent of new electrical appliances. Offers additional links.
PBS
Who Made America?: Innovators: George Westinghouse, Jr.
One-page profile of influential innovator, George Westinghouse, Jr., whose vision and ideas helped to increase the safety of the railroad system in America. His experimentation with electricity also had a huge impact on the power...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Charles Augustin De Coulomb
Spanish-language site lets students discover the life and work of this physicist and engineer, who is known for his studies of electric charges.
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Samuel Insull
This British-born businessman made cheap public utilities a reality for Americans, bringing them electricity and an improved quality of life.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Going for a Spin Making a Model Steam Turbine
Students explore how various energy sources can be used to cause a turbine to rotate and then generate electricity with a magnet.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Insulators
The nature of insulators is described at the atomic level. Band gap theory is used to explain what distinguishes insulators from conductors.
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University of Delaware Physics Department: Lithography
University of Delaware Physics Department provides this indexing page for a slide show presentation.
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Univ. Of Delaware Physics: More Semiconductor Physics
The University of Delaware Physics Department provides this site from a site titled "Silicon, Circuits, and the Digital Revolution," here is a series of four pages which explain the details behind how semiconductors work. An introduction...
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Brickhaus: The Allure of Household Appliances in the 1920s
This site discusses in detail the impact modern appliances had on the 1920s American household. Technology produced more opportunities within the household. Provides information about the benefits of electricity.
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Fun Science Ring: Leyden Jar
Everything you need to know about how Leyden jars work, and how to construct your own. Many pictures, references, other sites, other electrostatics projects and topics.
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Fearof Physics: Videos
Looking for some more explanantion on a topic covered in physics class? This site contains videos that explore some physics concepts. Videos are broken down by topics. Some videos also give examples on how to solve problems.
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Kidstorm: Lightning
Learn about lightning formation and lightning safety with this detailed webpage.
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Alliant Energy Kids
Students can use this resource to research energy facts and play online games and activities. There are also lesson plans and activities for the classroom.
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Bsi Education: Electrical Properties
The Applied Science resource consists of practical activities that demonstrate the importance of standard procedures in scientific work. Students examine electrical properties through a variety of activities. Some topics investigated are...
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Beginner's Guide to Measurement in Electronic and Electrical Engineering [Pdf]
The National Physical Laboratory, which is the UK's National Measurement Institute, offers a Beginner's Guide to Measurements in Electronics and Electrical Engineering. Discusses how electric currents are measured and offers images.
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California Energy Commission: Games: Watt's That?! Jr.
This site from California Energy Commission provides six different games about energy in which you may play by yourself or against an opponent to answer trivia questions.
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Electricity, Frankenstein, & the Spark of Life
Using an online exhibition, investigate how Mary Shelley's horror science fiction story, Frankenstein, reflects the knowledge and studies of electricity, and how those fictional ideas are used in modern medicine.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Physics and Astronomy: Electric Potential and Charge
From The Scots Guide to Electronics web site. The meaning of electric potential is described. A combination of diagrams and words are used to explain this difficult concept without the use of mathematics. Very well done!