Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Energy Transformation

For Students 6th - 8th
Given descriptions, illustrations, or scenarios, students will identify energy transformations, such as how energy in a flashlight battery changes from chemical energy to electric energy to light energy.
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Basic Electrical Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the basic concepts of electrical technology. Webpage includes thirty-nine lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures...
Handout
Science4Fun

Science4 Fun: Transformer

For Students K - 1st
Learn about transformers, how they work, the turn ratio, and their uses.
Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Power: Putting Charges to Work

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial the concept of how electrical energy is transformed is introduced. Learn how electric charges actually work and take the interactive quiz to assess your understanding.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Electrifying Energy

For Students K - 1st
This tutorial reviews over electrical energy.
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Faraday's Electromagnetic Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate with a bar magnet and coils to learn about Faraday's law. You can also play with electromagnets, generators, and transformers!
Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Michael Faraday

For Students 9th - 10th
A self-educated man with a brilliant mind, Michael Faraday was born in a hardscrabble neighborhood in London. Through the combination of insatiable curiosity and a powerful will to succeed, he transcended his austere beginnings to...
Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: The Tesla Coil

For Students 9th - 10th
What's behind the cool purple sparks? Neat science about resonance and transformers. Slideshow: [6:00]
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Forms of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online lesson students will investigate examples of kinetic and potential energy and their transformations.
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Power System Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures for a power system analysis e-learning course. Course covers topics like transmission line capacitance, transformer model, and power system stability.
Graphic
Curated OER

Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ny: Adams Power Plant Transformer House

For Students 9th - 10th
Transformer house of the first large-scale, alternating current electric generating plant in the world; tapped power of Niagara Falls via a 7,500 foot (2,286 m) tail-race tunnel.
Handout
Boston University

Boston University: Inductance and Transformers

For Students 9th - 10th
A university-level discussion of what inductance land resistance does to electricity travelling long distances.
Handout
PBS

Pbs: Tesla Inside the Lab the Tesla Coil

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the PBS companion site to a video about Tesla. This particular page reviews Tesla's accomplishments and follows the events of his life that prove to be both tragic and inspiring. This comprehensive resource provides powerful...
Website
PBS

Pbs: Tesla Inside the Lab the Tesla Coil

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the PBS companion site to a video about Tesla. This particular page reviews Tesla's most notable invention, the Tesla coil. It's components are described as well as their general uses.
Website
Canada Science and Technology Museum

Canada Science and Technology Museum: Background Information for Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Energy! What do you know about it? Use this terrific site to find out everything about it through a series of Q&As. Educators will find useful lesson plans at the related Teacher's site.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Electromagnetic Forces

For Students 9th - 10th
Given schematic diagrams, illustrations or descriptions, students will identify the relationship of electric and magnetic fields in applications such as generators, motors, and transformers.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A River Ran Through It

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn how water is used to generate electricity. They investigate water's potential-to-kinetic energy transformation in hands-on activities about falling water and waterwheels. During the activities, they take measurements,...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Renewable Energy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students are introduced to the types of renewable energy resources. They are involved in activities to help them understand the transformation of energy (solar, water and wind) into electricity. Students explore the...
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Physics: Introduction to Special Relativity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level electrical physics course highlighting Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Course introduces the physics of Lorentz contraction, time dilation, the "twin paradox", and E=mc2. Course features suggested readings,...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad Game: Fidgit Power

For Students 3rd - 7th
Help Fidgitville by designing wind turbines that make electricity and keep the air and water clean.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Wind Power!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn how engineers transform wind energy into electrical energy by building their own miniature wind turbines and measuring the electrical current it produces. They explore how design and position affect the electrical energy...
Handout
Great Idea Finder

The Great Idea Finder: Michael Faraday

For Students 9th - 10th
A solid biography of good length and history of Faraday's work. Complete, readable, thorough. Picture. Lots of links to other sources, including Joseph Henry's claim that *he* was first, and another about Faraday's kinetic flashlight!
Unit Plan
Learn AP Physics

Learn Ap Physics: Physics B: Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
A site dedicated to help students prepare for the AP Physics B test. This specific site reviews circuits including current, resistance, power, Ohm's law, batteries, DC circuits, transformers, and car coils. Site contains links to video...
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Through 10 lessons and more than 20 hands-on activities, students are introduced to the concept of an environment and the many interactions within it. As they learn about natural and human-made environments, as well as renewable and...