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Let it Shine

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate concepts of electricity by watching a video about Ben Franklin, participating in a web activity about simple circuits and experimenting with creating simple circuits. They examine conductors and insulators.
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From Sunlight to Electric Current

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore concept of current in electrical circuits. They examine how energy from the sun can be used to power everyday items, including vehicles.
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Discovering Circuit Boards

For Students 7th - 12th
In this circuit board worksheet, students research the 5 parts of a circuit board: transistors, resistors, capacitors, diodes, and inductors. This worksheet has 5 short answer questions.
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DC Series Circuits

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this circuits worksheet, students review how series circuits work, how volts are created, and how resistors effect the voltage. This worksheet has 11 problems to solve and includes the answers.
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Pickle Juice

For Teachers K - 12th
Students generate experimental questions regarding conductors of electricity, plug cord into pickle, and measure and graph voltage drop across electrodes. Students then compare to variety of other conductors of their choosing.
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Word Search: Electric Circuit

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this electric current word search worksheet, students find 13 science words pertaining to the electrical circuit. The puzzle is in an interesting shape.
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Pointing at Maximum Power for PV

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Following detailed directions, teams collect the voltage and current outputs of a photovoltaic cell by adjusting the resistance. Using the collected data, they determine the highest power output. Implications for weather and a large...
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Magnetic Units of Measurement

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
For this magnetic circuits worksheet, students answer 16 questions about magnetic flux, resistance, voltage, current, and reluctance.
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Light Your Way

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate how a simple series circuit functions. They design and construct a working portable flashlight, develop a written plan for the flashlight, test their flashlight for functionality and reliability, and draw the series...
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Safety Grounding

For Students 10th - 12th
In this grounding worksheet, students answer 12 questions about electrical power systems, the importance of grounding and electric shock.
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Design Project: Radio Transmitter

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students research the Federal Communication Commission to determine the regulations for a non-license radio transmitter. They will answer a series of another 3 questions to show an understanding of...
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Design Project: Intercom System

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this electrical instructional activity students design an intercom circuit and answer 2 open-ended questions about the volume control and microphone of the intercom. This instructional activity can be printed and the answers to the...
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Linear Computational Circuitry

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this electrical worksheet, students draw a schematic design circuit board to grasp the understanding amplification in linear circuitry before answering a series of 35 open-ended questions pertaining to a variety of linear circuitry....
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Insulators and Conductors

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students conduct an experiment in which they create open and closed circuits.  For this insulators and conductors lesson, students review open and closed circuits and then get in groups to make both kinds of circuit. ...
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Stepper Motor

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners compare a stepper motor from a traditional motor. In this physics lesson, students summarize how it works. They build their own stepper motor and explore its uses.
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Electronic Components

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students review new terminology and computer circuits and the value of a resistor. They complete three experiments, "Resistance Activities," Transistor Activities,"Diode Activities" and enter data, results and their findings on Student...
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Home Electrical Safety

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explain the danger of incorrectly wired plugs. In this physics lesson, students construct their own safe plug. They share the finished project in class.
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Circuits and Conductors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners participate in an online lesson to explain the conductivity of different materials and the effect of changing the power source.
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Magic of Physics

Franklin's Lab

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Get energized! Circuitry scholars follow the path of energy from its beginnings as a fossil fuel all the way to bulbs and batteries using an interesting interactive. Groups or individuals help Ben Franklin discover how to convert and...
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Ohm's Law: Voltage-Current-Resistance Relationship

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Join the resistance—Ohm! Scholars apply Ohm's Law to problems of increasing difficulty as part of a series on electric circuits. The lesson begins with simply doubling and tripling voltage or resistance. It ends with having pupils solve...
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Magnet Mania

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars explain how magnets can be used to make some things move without being touched. They explore that electricity in circuits can produce light, heat, sound, and magnetic effects. They create an electronic poster about magnet...
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What Configurations Work to Light a Bulb?

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore simple electrical circuits. Students experiment, using different configurations, to determine what is necessary to compeete a circuit. Students observe similarities between arrangements that work and differences in...
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General Industry Outreach Training Program

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students, after being introduced to an overview of the hazards of electricity at the workplace, view a power point presentation involving the four types of injuries that could result from contact with electricity: electrocution or death,...
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Magnets

For Students 9th - 12th
In this magnets worksheet, students describe the differences between a generator and a motor, define electromagnet, and identify a circuit as parallel or series. This worksheet has 2 short answer questions, 5 fill in the blank and 18...

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