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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Saying No to Alcohol and Other Drugs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discuss negative peer pressure and learn about the harmful ways that drugs and alcohol can affect your body and mind. This website provides several discussion questions, writing prompts, and activity ideas through which you can talk and...
PPT
Other

University of Delaware Physics Department: Lithography

For Students 9th - 10th
University of Delaware Physics Department provides this indexing page for a slide show presentation.
Website
Other

Univ. Of Delaware Physics: More Semiconductor Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Other

Bsi Education: Electrical Properties

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Other

Need: Measuring Electricity [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site details many of the ways in which to measure electricity. Among the topics covered by this page is resistance and voltage as well as electrical energy and Ohm's Law.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Inductive Reactance

For Students 9th - 10th
Like resistance, reactance slows an electrical current down. Explained by Lenz's Law, this phenomenon occurs only in AC circuits. (Java tutorial)
Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Rheostat

For Students 9th - 10th
After discovering the nature of electrical resistance, scientists devised instruments like this one to measure and control it. (Java tutorial)
Interactive
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Wheatstone Bridge

For Students 9th - 10th
This circuit is most commonly used to determine the value of an unknown resistance to an electrical current.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Internal Resistance of a Battery

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Batteries have both an ideal internal voltage and a terminal voltage, which is less due to internal resistance. This lesson presents sample problems and a video...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Electric Circuits: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how to calculate voltage, current, and resistance in simple electric circuits. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Electric Circuits."
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Resistance in a Wire

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the resistance of a wire by altering its resistivity, length, and area to see what the effects are.
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Arizona State University

Arizona State University: Keepin' It Real

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource describes an organization dedicated to informing young people how to say no to drugs. It includes several articles, curriculum, and links for more information.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Georg Ohm

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the German physicist and mathematician whose work in the field of electrical current shaped the study of electricity.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Exercise and Muscle Performance

For Students 9th - 10th
Physical training alters the appearance of skeletal muscles and can produce changes in muscle performance. Conversely, a lack of use can result in decreased performance and muscle appearance. This site helps students understand exercise...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Completing the Circuit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In the everyday electrical devices we use - calculators, remote controls and cell phones - a voltage source such as a battery is required to close the circuit and operate the device. In this hands-on activity, students use a battery,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Blow and Go Parachute

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students make a skydiver and parachute contraption to demonstrate how drag caused by air resistance slows the descent of skydivers as they travel back to Earth. Gravity pulls the skydiver toward the Earth, while the air trapped by the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Electrons on the Move

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars learn about current electricity and necessary conditions for the existence of an electric current. Students construct a simple electric circuit and a galvanic cell to help them understand voltage, current and resistance.
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Read Works

Read Works: What's Bugging Everyone?

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about bedbugs and how difficult they are to exterminate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Electric Resistance

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what resistance is and factors that affect it, and how it can be advantageous and disadvantageous. [Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]
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Other

Spark Fun: Voltage, Current, Resistance, and Ohm's Law

For Students 9th - 10th
Whether you are looking for an introduction to resistors, volt, and current, or just looking for a reference, this article provides great information for all ability levels. Great videos, diagrams, images, and links to more information...
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Physics4kids

Physics4 Kids: Electricity and Magnetism: Resistance

For Students 6th - 8th
Explains electrical resistance and how it is measured using the formula for Ohm's Law.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Physics Quizzes: Newton's Three Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
Assess your understanding of Newton's three laws of motion and the ability to distinguish between the three with this interactive multiple choice quiz. Receive immediate feedback to your answers.
Handout
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Electricity: The Mouse Cheese Analogy

For Students 9th - 10th
This page uses a mouse and cheese analogy to show the relationships involved in electricity through currents and charges. Among the topics covered by the analogy are voltage, resistance and electromagnetism.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Internal Resistance of a Battery From Voltage

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine the internal resistance of a battery based on the electrochemical potential and the voltage that is measured at the terminals of the battery when it is being used.