Unit Plan
Essential Energy

Being a Safety Star (Stage 3)

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
A spark of static electricity contains up to 3,000 volts, while a lightning strike contains around 3,000,000 volts. To understand electricity, its power, and the safety considerations relating to it learners engage in a comprehensive...
Activity
PBS

Hands-On Engineering Challenges to Bolster Your Electricity, Sound, and Force Units

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Need some activities to go along with your unit? A collection of hands-on activities from PBS offers opportunities to add to your electricity, sound, and force units. The electricity activities revolve around building a...
Interactive
Physics Classroom

Resistance Ranking Tasks

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Resistance is not futile ... it is voltage divided by current. Scholars apply their knowledge to a series of ranking puzzles. First, they consider wires of varying lengths and then wires of varying cross-sectional areas. Finally, they...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Make an Electric Quiz

For Students 6th - 7th
In this electric circuits activity, students follow the directions to construct an electric quiz board. When the correct answer in one column is matched with the question in another, the light bulb will light up.
Interactive
Curated OER

Inductive Reactance

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students draw a schematic design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding of inductive reactance before answering a series of 13 open-ended questions. This worksheet is printable and the...
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Curated OER

Performance-based Assessments for Network Analysis Competencies

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit quiz, students use schematics to answer a series of 7 open-ended performance based questions to show their understanding of Thevenin's and Norton's theorem about electrical circuits. This quiz can be printed...
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Curated OER

Servo Motor Systems

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students answer  a series of 9 open-ended questions with schematics about motors and how they are used within certain types of electrical circuits.  This worksheet is printable and there...
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Curated OER

Counters

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
Within this electrical circuit worksheet, learners design and build a circuit board to understand counters. Students will answer a series of 24 open-ended questions that include analyzing schematics. This worksheet is printable and the...
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Curated OER

Shift Registers

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding of shift resister circuit design before answering a series of 22 open-ended questions with schematics. This worksheet is printable...
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Curated OER

AC Motor Theory

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
For this electrical circuit worksheet, students answer a series of 20 open-ended questions about AC motor circuits.  This worksheet is printable and the answers are revealed online.
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Curated OER

Class A: BJT Amplifiers

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
Within this electrical circuit worksheet, students draw a schematic design and build a transmitter to grasp the understanding of bipolar junction amplifiers before answering a series of 62 open-ended questions in which they will...
Interactive
Curated OER

Insulate Gate Field-Effect Transistors

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit worksheet, learners draw a schematic design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding of insulated gate field effect transistors before answering a series of 39 open-ended questions that include...
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Curated OER

Light-Pulse Switch

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit worksheet, learners answer a series of 3 open-ended questions about light-pulse switches. This worksheet is printable and the answers are revealed online.
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Curated OER

Digital-to Analog Conversion

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students answer a series of 13 open-ended questions about digital-to-analog converter circuits. They analyze schematics in order to answer the questions. This worksheet is printable and the answers...
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Curated OER

Analog to Digital Conversion

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students answer a series of 18 open-ended questions about analog to digital converter circuits. They analyze schematics in order to answer the questions. Students design and build an analog to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Interactive Question Asker

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners practice studying chapters from a unit by creating an electric circuit.  In this electronic studying lesson, students utilize a file folder, hole punch, foil, light bulb and battery to create a wired circuit behind answers...
Interactive
Curated OER

BJT Amplifier Troubleshooting

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit worksheet, learners answer a series of 11 open-ended questions about BJT amplifiers and how to troubleshoot these circuits. This worksheet is printable and the answers are revealed online.
Interactive
Curated OER

Sum of Products and Product of Sums Expression

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit learning exercise, learners answer a series of 21 questions about sum of product and product of sum, and Boolean expression for a logic circuit. They design and build a circuit board using  PC-board relays...
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Curated OER

Karnaugh Mapping

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit learning exercise, students answer a series of 17 questions using a Karnaugh map to generate a Boolean expression, and identify logic gates and functions. This learning exercise is printable and the answers are...
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Curated OER

Conventional Transistor Overview and Special Transistors

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students develop an understanding of micro-controllers and then answer a series of 13 open-ended questions about transistors that include analyzing schematics. This worksheet is printable and the...
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Curated OER

Digital Codes

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
 In this electrical circuit activity, students answer a series of 12 open-ended questions about various types of digital codes. This activity is printable and the answers are revealed online.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Design Project: AC-DC Power Supply

For Students 9th - 12th
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students answer 5 open ended questions about the design and safety of an AC-DC power supply.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Circuit Boards

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore circuits.  In this electricity science instructional activity, students build a circuit board after viewing a related PowerPoint presentation. Detailed instructions are included.
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Curated OER

Static Electricity

For Students 5th - 10th
In this electricity worksheet, students read about static and current electricity and then draw pictures of an electric cell and circuits. Students draw 3 pictures total.