National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Current Flow
This tutorial illustrates how the flow of water through a system of pipes can be used to understand the flow of current through an electric circuit.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Current, Resistance, and Resistivity Review
Review the key terms, equations, and skills related to current, resistance, and resistivity, including how to find the current direction and what resistance depends on.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Electric Analogies
[Free Registration/Login Required] Explore a different way of thinking about electricity as a way to become familiar with the concept of potential, current, and resistance using this interactive simulation. A PDF worksheet and a video...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measuring Current and Voltage
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students are introduced to the ammeter, which measures electrical current, and to the voltmeter, which measures voltage.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Alternating Current
Alternating current behaves differently, depending on what components are in a circuit.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Electric Power and Electrical Energy Use
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Electric power and electric energy use of appliances and how to calculate them.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Finding Current With Ohm's Law
Learn how to measure the electrical current using Ohm's Law.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Chart of Electrical Symbols With Their Meanings
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.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Electric Currents and Circuits
This cooperative learning activity for intermediate to junior high students has them create various electrical circuits in order to understand electricity.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Introduction to Open and Closed Electrical Circuits
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."
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Current Electricity
Four complete lessons on current electricity in the study of physics. Lessons include informational text, interactive activities, animations, and quick, interactive comprehension checks.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Electric Circuits
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.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Electricity: The Mouse Cheese Analogy
This page uses a mouse and cheese analogy to show the relationships involved in electricity through currents and charges. Among the topics covered by the analogy are voltage, resistance and electromagnetism.
Museum of Science
The Atom's Family: Electrical Safety
Help Frankenstein find out about electrical safety by clicking on the haunted house characters to find out what they are doing wrong.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Physical Science: Electric Circuits
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the parts of an electric circuit and identifies electric safety features and how to use electricity safely.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Lessons in Electric Circuits
Learn anything you ever wanted to know and more about electrical circuits here. Complete with in-depth explanations and detailed diagrams.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Iceland: What Is Electricity?
Go on a fishing trip with Martin and his grandfather. They use a lot of electrical equipment. Help him find out which items use electricity.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Inuit Village: How Can We Use Electricity Safely?
Visit Adlet in the Inuit village, and help her find out how she can use electricity safely.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Vikings: What Is an Electric Circuit?
The god of thunder, Thor, controls thunder and lightning. Let's ask Thor about electric circuits.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Put a Spark in It! Electricity
Uncountable times every day "with the merest flick of a finger"each one of us calls on electricity to do our bidding. What would your life be like without electricity? Students begin learning about electricity with an introduction to the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Electric and Magnetic Personalities of Mr. Maxwell
Students are briefly introduced to Maxwell's equations and their significance to phenomena associated with electricity and magnetism. Basic concepts such as current, electricity and field lines are covered and reinforced. Through...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Wilhelm Weber
Find out more about German physicist Wilhelm Weber, who developed and enhanced a variety of devices for sensitively detecting and measuring magnetic fields and electrical currents.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Analyzing Data Sources and Author's Purpose: Electric Currents
In this science-themed literacy lesson, students learn how to determine the author's purpose and follow the development of that purpose.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism: 1820 1829
Hans Christian Orsted's accidental discovery that an electrical current moves a compass needle rocks the scientific world; a spate of experiments follows, immediately leading to the first electromagnet and electric motor.
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