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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Electrifying Energy

For Students K - 1st
This tutorial reviews over electrical energy.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: A Battery That Makes Cents

For Students 3rd - 5th
Batteries are expensive to purchase in a store, but you can make one your self for exactly 24 cents. In this experiment, you will make your own voltaic pile using pennies and nickels and determine how many coins in a pile will make the...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Physics (Combined Science)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a list of the topics and links to the Physics (Combined Science)courses offered in GCSE Bitesize and a list of contents of each. The topics include the following: Energy, Electricity, Matter, Radioactivity, Forces,...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench Showcase: Physics, Electromagnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
Students can use these simulations to understand concepts in electromagnetism. Simulations are available on the following concepts: Lorentz Force, The Hall Effect, capacitor, conductor, transistor, cyclotron, static electricity....
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Faraday's Law

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive simulation that teaches about Faraday's Law, magnets, and magnetic fields by showing how a change in the magnetic flux can produce a flow of electricity. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online and...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Svante Arrhenius

For Students 9th - 10th
Svante Arrhenius was born in Vik, Sweden, and became the first native of that country to win the Nobel Prize. The award for chemistry was bestowed to him in honor of his theory of electrolytic dissociation. Arrhenius also developed the...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Richard Feynman

For Students 9th - 10th
Theoretical physicist Richard Phillips Feynman greatly simplified the way in which the interactions of particles could be described through his introduction of the diagrams that now bear his name (Feynman diagrams) and was a co-recipient...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Robert Millikan

For Students 9th - 10th
Robert Andrews Millikan was a prominent American physicist who made lasting contributions to both pure science and science education. He is particularly well known for his highly accurate determination of the charge of an electron via...
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Other

Stile: 2.1 Lesson: Electromagnetism (Part 1)

For Students 4th - 6th
This is a sample lesson on electromagnetism. It includes animated diagrams, interactive exercises, an audio option for reading the text, and comprehension questions throughout where students can type their answers or pick from...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Electricity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students can use this Flipchart to learn and apply Ohm's law to basic circuitry problems. Students are introduced to the relationship among voltage, current, and resistance, and then apply their newly...
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NASA

Nasa: Oersted and Ampere Link Electricity

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA provides a nice blending of the achievements of three scientists, Oersted, Ampere, and Maxwell. This done by NASA-sponsored International Solar-Terrestrial Physics group. Lots of pictures, diagrams, and scientific explanation. Good...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Electromagnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
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Physics4kids

Physics4 Kids: Electricity and Magnetism: Conductors and Conductivity

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief overview of several type of conductors.
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Physics: Light Ii: Electromagnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructional module focusing on light and electromagnetism. Discussion includes historical discoveries that led to the understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to...
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Other

Math, Physics and Engineering Applets

For Students 9th - 10th
Written by Paul Falstad, these educational Java applets address myriad concepts related to electrostatics, magnetostatics and electrodynamics. You'll find instructions on how to operate each applet, but little explanatory material.
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OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: 8.3 Forces at a Distance

For Teachers 8th
This unit allows students to investigate the cause of a speaker's vibration in addition to the effect.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Good, the Bad and the Electromagnet

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Using plastic straws, wire, batteries and iron nails, student teams build and test two versions of electromagnets-one with and one without an iron nail at its core. They test each magnet's ability pick up loose staples, which reveals the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Yogurt Cup Speakers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson introduces students to the role of electricity and magnetism as they build a speaker. In addition, students explore properties of magnets, create an electromagnet, and determine the direction of a magnetic filed. They conduct...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Electromagnetic Waves: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will show how a particle can travel in a wave form, by following perpendicular electric and magnetic fields. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Electromagnetic Waves."
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Electromagnetic Induction Demonstration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn the relationship between the electric and magnetic fields. Specifically, they verify that a magnetic field is created in a current carrying coil of wire and a changing magnetic field can induce a current in another coil of...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Duchenne Machine 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
French physician Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne invented a device that electrically stimulates muscles. The apparatus gave him new insight into neuromuscular disorders, earned him the epitaph of "father of electrotherapeutics," and...
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Florida State University

Florida State University: Magnet Lab: Electric Meter 1872

For Students 9th - 10th
The invention of the light bulb quickly created the need to track people's electricity usage. In 1872, Samuel Gardiner built the first simple power meter: a lamp with an attached clock that recorded the time the light was on.
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Science Bob Pflugfelder

Science Bob: Build an Electromagnet!

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site presents a procedure for creating your own electromagnet using an iron nail, some wire, and a battery. The site illustrates a connection between electricity and magnetism.
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University of Oregon

University of Oregon: Electromagnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
A solid summary from the University of Oregon of the work of James Maxwell Clerk, Michael Faraday, and others in the field of electric and magnetic phenomena. This is a fine essay.

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