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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: What Is Electric Charge? Ocr 21 C

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on electric charges. Electric current is the flow of electric charge. Some insulating materials become electrically charged when they are rubbed together. A substance that gains electrons becomes negatively charged,...
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Separation and Power, Making of African American Identity: V. 3

For Students 9th - 10th
An essay that examines the relationship between racial separation and power. In this essay Stokely Carmichael advocates for the coalescence of political and economic power within the black community in a way that liberates and insulates...
Website
US Department of Energy

U.s. Department of Energy: Energy Savers

For Students 9th - 10th
Find information on everything from buying energy-efficient products to using the proper landscaping for particular climates to conserve resources. Starting with an energy assessment, this website will help users reduce their consumption...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Capturing the Sun's Warmth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In the exploration of ways to use solar energy, students investigate the thermal energy storage capacities of different test materials to determine which to use in passive solar building design.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Efficiency

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students measure energy outputs and inputs to determine the efficiency of conversions and simple systems. One associated activitiy includes Lego motors and accomplishing work. The other investigates energy for heating water. Students...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Electrostatics

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text, interactive activities, practice problems, and virtual simulations, students learn about the basic properties of electricity in this unit.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Charge and Coulomb's Law

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning about charge and forces of attraction will be keys to understanding electrostatics and the basis of this learning unit. Developing a greater understanding of charge and the charge model is necessary to understanding electricity.
Activity
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Using Energy Resources Wisely

For Students 6th - 9th
Students test which type of material retains heat the longest.
Handout
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Inducing a Positive Charge on a Sphere

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from the Glenbrook South High School provides an animation depicting the induction charging of a single sphere by the process of induction. The movement of electrons is shown. The animation is accompanied by explanations of...
Handout
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Charging a Two Sphere System by Induction

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Multimedia Physics Studios. An animation depicting the induction charging of a double sphere system by the process of induction. The movement of electrons between spheres and between the ground and sphere is shown. The animation...
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Thermal Physics: Rates of Heat Transfer

For Students 9th - 10th
Through illustrated examples and interactive examples, students investigate the topic of the rate of heat transfer.
Lesson Plan
The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: Ms Ps3 3: Thermal Energy Transfer Solution

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Lessons to show thermal energy transfer. Students will "apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer".
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Bake Your Ice Cream

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity will teach you how it is even possible to bake ice cream in a hot oven and have it come out frozen.
Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Heat Flow to Hotter Region

For Students 9th - 10th
Heat flow from a hot region to a cold region is described and explained. Applications of this phenomenon (specifically heat pumps and refrigerators) are discussed. Excellent graphics.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Electromagnets

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan contains several activities designed to help the student understand the magnetic effects of an electrical current.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Elements Metals, Nonmetals and Metalloids

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate several properties of the given elements and decide whether each element is a metal, non-metal, or a metalloid.
PPT
Other

University of Delaware Physics Department: Lithography

For Students 9th - 10th
University of Delaware Physics Department provides this indexing page for a slide show presentation.
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Other

Univ. Of Delaware Physics: More Semiconductor Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Delaware Physics Department provides this site from a site titled "Silicon, Circuits, and the Digital Revolution," here is a series of four pages which explain the details behind how semiconductors work. An introduction...
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Other

Fun Science Ring: Leyden Jar

For Students 9th - 10th
Everything you need to know about how Leyden jars work, and how to construct your own. Many pictures, references, other sites, other electrostatics projects and topics.
Activity
Colorado State University

Csu: Heat Transfer Mechanisms

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent page from the Colorado State University with a heavy mathematical emphasis. Each form of heat transfer--conduction, convection, and radiation--is defined, compared, and contrasted. Mathematical equations governing the rates...
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Other

Fact index.com: Thermal Conductivity

For Students 9th - 10th
Fact-Index.com offers an excellent site on thermal conductivity. Includes table of contents, hyperlinked terms, and formulas.
Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Heat

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short quiz on heat, covering its difference from temperature, thermal energy, and the means by which heat is transferred.
Activity
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Atmospheric Processes Conduction

For Students 3rd - 8th
This simple demonstration helps students understand the concept of conduction. Site includes background information, images, and lesson plans outlining the demonstration of conduction.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Get Your Motor Running

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate motors and electromagnets as they construct their own simple electric motors using batteries, magnets, paper clips and wire.

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