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How to Build a Simple Electric Motor

Pre-K - 8th
Lots of everyday items use motors: cars, fridges, washing machines, fans and vacuum cleaners. This doesn’t sound too exciting, but that is because we don’t see them in action. So here is a fun way to create your own...
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Electric Motor Build - Make a simple electric motor

Higher Ed
Learn to build a simple electric motor as well as how the motor works. We cover the rotor, shaft, commutator, stator and magnets to learn how an electric motor works.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Electromagnet: Electromagnetic Field (Loop)

9th - 10th
A demonstration of the simplest electric motor showing current being applied to a single loop of wire. This is the principal observation leading to all electric motors. Based on actual observations from 1819 by Hans Christian Oersted....