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Build Your Own Simple DC Motor

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students, after brainstorming how we interact with some kind of motor every day in our lives, explore how to build their own DC motor. They collect all the parts needed for their experiment and review all safety precautions. In addition,...
Worksheet
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Batteries and Emerging Technology

For Students 9th - 12th
In this batteries worksheet, high schoolers read about how batteries work and the types of batteries. They answer three critical thinking questions about batteries and their use as alternate-fuel sources.
Lesson Plan
Center Science Education

Plugged In To CO2

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Watt is going on here? Middle schoolers are learning about energy use and carbon dioxide emissions! In the first part of this instructional activity, learners measure how much energy different appliances consume and calculate the...
Lesson Plan
Perkins School for the Blind

Building a Basic Series Circuit

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Make science a fully accessible subject for your learners with visual impairments. They'll use tactile models to explore the nature of basic electrical circuits. Template board, wires, batteries, and Velcro are used to construct the...
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More Power to You

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars construct a simple galvanometer in order to detect the presence of an electric current as well as determine the amount of the current. Activity is divided into two parts, first part as group work and second as individual.
Handout
National Institute of Open Schooling

Electrochemistry

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
In an electrolytic cell, electrical energy is converted into chemical energy, the exact opposite of a battery! Lesson 15 in a series of 36 explores electrochemistry. Participants begin by reading and discussing oxidation/reduction...
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DESKTOP ELECTROPHORESIS LAB - MOVING MOLECULES

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students build efficient electrophoresis systems for less than $15.00 each and use them to demonstrate electrophoresis ability of stain molecules and materials such as DNA.. They know that electrophoresis is a technique used for the...
Worksheet
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Chapter 14 Review, Section 1: Acids and Bases

For Students 9th - 12th
An overview of acid and base compounds and their reactions is presented with this handout. Pupils name compounds and write chemical formulas. They write net ionic equations and explain how acidic solutions might conduct electricity. This...
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Build a Simple Ammeter

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students build and work with a simple ammeter to test theories on why solar cells connected in parallel produce more current that in series. Students use the ammeter to indicate the presence, direction, and strength of an electric...
Activity
DiscoverE

Design a Folding Solar Panel

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Solar energy is an amazing alternative ... but, not always particularly portable! Challenge young scientists to a folding solar panel build-off with an easy-to-execute activity. Scholars brainstorm around specific design needs, construct...
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Incandescent Light Bulb

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Students study the history of the light bulb and how an incandescent light bulb works.  In this electricity lesson plan students complete several experiments on the light bulb.
Worksheet
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Circuit Basics

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this circuits worksheet, students compare voltage, current, and resistance. Students draw a battery with a resistor, switch, and light bulb. This worksheet has 6 short answer, 1 matching, and 6 drawing questions.
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Applied Science - Technology (3A) Post Lab

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss how energy is created. In this energy lesson, 3rd graders look at how a city receives energy and how it is made. They create their own generator using a pin wheel and pipe cleaners. 
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Protective Relay Circuits

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this physics activity, students answer 4 short answer questions on protective relay circuits. They explain how differential relay works.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Build a Tesla Coil

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore tesla coil through various experiments. In this physics lesson, students build their own tesla coils based on a given procedure. They discuss its real world applications.
Interactive
Curated OER

Design Project: DC Motor

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this DC motor worksheet, the learner answers 3 open-ended questions pertaining to the design of a DC motor. The worksheet is printable and the answers are revealed online.
Worksheet
Curated OER

DC Motor Theory

For Students 9th - 12th
In this physics worksheet, learners solve 12 problems on DC motor circuit. They make predictions and construct the corresponding circuit to verify if they are correct.
Lesson Plan
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Two Button Buzzer Circuit

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners explore circuit structure, draw a schematic for it, and construct a two button buzzer model out of wires, a battery, buttons (switches), and a buzzer.
Worksheet
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Appliance Energy Use and Cost

For Students 7th - 10th
In this energy usage learning exercise, students use a chart comparing the average monthly kilowatt-hour use of different household appliances to complete 4 short answer questions.
Interactive
Curated OER

Peak, Average, and RMS Measurements

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this voltage instructional activity, students answer ten questions about RMS amplitude, DC power sources, AC alternators and the measurements used for voltage in power lines.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Capacitive Reactance

For Students Higher Ed
In this electronics worksheet, students solve and write short answers to 15 questions about capacitors. They interpret schematic diagrams and calculate values using Ohm's law.
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How Much Electricity Do You Use?

For Students 5th - 12th
In this energy use instructional activity, students will look at a table that lists different household appliances and the amount of energy used per year measured in Kilowatt-hours. Using this information, students will calculate how...
Interactive
Curated OER

IGFET amplifiers

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this electronics learning exercise, students draw a schematic design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding of IGFET amplifiers before answering a series of 2 open-ended questions with schematics. This learning exercise...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Bipolar Junction Transistors in Active Mode

For Students Higher Ed
In this physics worksheet, students analyze different schematic diagrams and answer the questions that follow. They solve and write short answers to 23 questions on circuits.

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