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Risk Watch Reporters Use Electrical Safety Eyes: Prevention is the Key

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars review three true electrical stories, research true dangers involved in electrical discharges, identify and work to eliminate electrical hazards in their homes, and create electrical safety message to share with peers.
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All About Electric Motors

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners study the basic principles of electric motors and explore everyday uses. They build a working model of an electric motor for classroom use, using an inexpensive kit. Then, they work as an "engineering" team to determine the...
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DC Branch Current Analysis

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
Engage your class in physics with this series of questions. The first question is the most hands-on and asks learners to build their own circuit. The rest of the questions are related to current analysis. Class members solve 7 problems...
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Electrical Connections

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical connections worksheet, students answer 13 questions about conductance, resistors, how to build a circuit and electrical connections.
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Transforming Energy

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Super detailed, this lesson will educate physical science learners about the flow of electrons. Begin by reviewing potential and kinetic energy with a moving pendulum, and then get them online to observe interactive websites about...
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What is pH and Why is It Important?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate about acids, bases, and pH and relate this information to the problem of acid deposition. They use pH paper, students test common household substances to determine whether they are acidic, basic, or neutral. Pupils...
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Sources of Electricity

For Students 10th - 12th
In this online electricity worksheet, learners are asked 10 questions about electric current and battery energy, an online answer key provided.
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Electrical Generators

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Learners study what an electric generator does and its history.  For this energy lesson students complete several experiments including building their own electric generator.
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Electricity: Series and Parallel Circuits

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore electricity and electrical circuits. They explore series and parallel circuits using Christmas lights. Students pull lights out of each strand of lights. They observe the results when the light bulb is pulled out....
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Basic Operational Amplifiers

For Students Higher Ed
For this electronics worksheet, students analyze different amplifier circuits and answer 18 short answer and problem solving questions about them.
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Electric Power Transmission and Distribution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explain how power is transmitted over long distances. In this physics lesson, students simulate controlling power flow in parallel transmission lines. They discuss several applications of wireless power transmission.
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Basic Algebra and Graphing for Electric Circuits

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this electronics activity, students evaluate mathematical expressions to complete 16 short answer and problem solving questions.
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Plasma Globes and Electricity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the basic ideas of conductors and insulators. In this electricity lesson, students predict which items will work as insulators or conductors when contact is made with a lightning globe. The students evaluate what they...
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Electric Motors

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars examine the different types of electric motors including their history and classification.  In this motor lesson students complete several experiments with different motors.
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MINI-UNIT on ELECTRICITY

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars identify hypotheses related to static electricity, to begin to test the hypotheses, to begin to develop conclusions related to observations, to demonstrate that like charges repel and unlike charges attract each other, to...
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Methods of Power- Solar, Hydrogen, and Electric

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students examine solar, hydrogen, electric power. In this research based instructional activity, students will do simple investigations, view videos, discuss, and research how these three types of energy are used for power. They...
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Electric Field Activity

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this physics instructional activity, students identify and describe the correct and incorrect features in electric field lines. Then they qualitatively sketch field lines for a charge distribution and a charge given the field lines.
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Algebraic Substitution for Electric Circuits

For Students Higher Ed
In this physics worksheet, students use Ohm's law to solve for voltage, current and resistance. They answer 13 problem solving questions using Ohm's law.
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Basic Logic Gate Troubleshooting

For Students Higher Ed
In this physics worksheet, students analyze and solve gate circuit problems. They solve and write short answers to 22 questions on circuits.
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Circuits

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Don't know how to make the initial connection on electric circuits? This lesson provides the background to present the introductory vocabulary to learning about electric circuits. It is organized in a meaningful progression with an...
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Electricity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers watch instructor present demonstrations of the basic principles of static electricity, and then conduct some of their own experiments. In small groups, students build simple circuits, using batteries, to try to light up...
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Electric Current

For Students 9th - 12th
For this electric current worksheet, learners review vocabulary words associated with electricity. Students understand how electricity is used in their lives every day. This worksheet has 12 fill in the blank questions.
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Electricity and Magnetism: Are They Related?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore electricity and magnetism. Through the use of role play, students simulate being a scientist. Experiments are performed during the simulation to discover the relationship between electric current and magnetism. After...
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Alessandro Volta: The Invention of the Voltaic Pile (The First Electric Battery)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct a series of experiments on electricity. In this physics lesson, students study the work of Alessandro Volta particularly his experiment on the the Voltaic Pail. They build their own Voltaic Pile to recreate his experiment.

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