Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics: Electrical Systems Study Guide

For Students 6th - 9th
A study guide covering electrical systems.
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Introduction to Electric Power Systems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level electrical engineering course highlighting electric power systems. Course introduces electric power and the conversion of electrical to mechanical energy. Course features include readings, assignments, and quizzes.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Electric Safety

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of electric safety: short circuits, electric safety features, and how to use electricity safely.
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the advanced analog integrated circuits. Webpage includes twenty-seven lectures from a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Lectures vary in length and...
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Chart of Electrical Symbols With Their Meanings

For Students 9th - 10th
A useful list of electrical symbols that are used in schematic diagrams. Each symbol is accompanied by its name and a caption stating its function.
Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Series and Parallel Circuits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The core of this lesson is simple circuits and the differences between parallel and series circuit design. Students perform experiments to test the differences between the two circuit designs using low voltage light bulbs.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Characteristics of Circuit Diagrams

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice identifying the direction of current flow, closed circuits, and open circuits with this multiple choice quiz.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Dc Circuits: Parallel Resistances (Sparks 2)

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore circuits with resistors in parallel and answer questions regarding voltage drops across resistors and currents through them in such circuits.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Advanced Circuit Analysis

For Students 11th - 12th
Practice analyzing circuits using Kirchhoff's laws and Ohm's law with series and parallel resistors.
Interactive
South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
This colorful site will help you understand series and parallel circuits.
Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Ac Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
A very comprehensive site organized well with many topics dealing with AC circuits.
Graphic
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Understanding Electricity | Nasa Online

For Students 3rd - 5th
If you want to understand electricity, you first need to know a little about matter, atoms and electrons.
Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Electric Potential

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial introduces the concept of electric potential. It relates this concept to the potential energy of a positive test charge at various locations within an electric field. Take the interactive quiz to test your understanding.
Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Electric Messages: Then and Now

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson investigates electronic communication from the Morse Code system to text messaging. To learn about this, students construct simple circuits, send messages to each other, and explore the history and impact of communication.
Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Electric Current

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial introduces the concept of electric currents. Take the interactive quiz to assess your understanding.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids:activities and Videos: Electricity

For Students 3rd - 8th
This PBS site offers videos and activities are hands-on challenges that focus on the engineering design process. They use simple materials, allow for multiple solutions, and are ideal for ages 9-12.
Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Electric Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
Current transfers energy around circuits. Circuit components have various properties that can be measured and then used to make circuits for control and also circuits for testing other components.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lighting the Way: Electrical Circuits and Lamp Wiring

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through a series of self-guided activities, students will explore basic electrical circuits and then build a working model of a circuit through the process of wiring a lamp. They will understand the flow of electrons through a circuit,...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Introduction to Electric Circuits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will show how to properly connect wires to make a closed electric circuit. Included in this will be how to connect batteries in series and/or in parallel, and how to properly measure potential drops across a resistor and...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Controlling Current Overload in Electric Circuits

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Electrical circuits have safety features like fuses and circuit breakers to prevent an overload, which could cause a fire. This lesson explains how these work....
Activity
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,...
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Vikings: What Is an Electric Circuit?

For Students 4th - 6th
The god of thunder, Thor, controls thunder and lightning. Let's ask Thor about electric circuits.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Introduction to Open and Closed Electrical Circuits

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This activity introduces students to the concepts of electrical current and open and closed circuits. Students will act out open and closed circuits as a whole class with some students acting as the "motors" or "light bulbs."
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Comparing Current Intensities of Series, Parallel, and Complex Circuits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will investigate the differences of current in series, parallel, and complex circuits through the construction of a small house containing the different types of circuits.

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