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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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Sum of Products and Product of Sums Expression

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
For this electrical circuit worksheet, students 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 to show an...
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Karnaugh Mapping

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit activity, students answer a series of 17 questions using a Karnaugh map to generate a Boolean expression, and identify logic gates and functions. This activity is printable and the answers are available on-line.
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Electricity Review

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this electricity worksheet, students review topics related to electricity such as circuits, voltage, electric fields, and resistors. This worksheet has 21 problems to solve.
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Thyristor Application Circuits

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students design and construct a circuit to demonstrate understanding of thyristors. They analyze schematics and answer a series of 16 open-ended questions about switches, rectifiers, or voltage...
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Exploring Electricity: Light Sculptures

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study electricity by making their own light sculptures. In this light sculptures lesson, students review electrical loops and circuitry components. Students then plan, create, and refine light sculptures.
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Current Electricity: Electrical Circuit Activity

For Students 5th - 6th
In this direction of electron flow worksheet, students determine whether current will flow when a switch is closed, then mark positive and negative signs in circles of batteries for circuits shown on diagrams.
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Mission 2: Electricity

For Students 4th - 5th
In these electricity worksheets, students learn about electricity, how its used, how it can be changes, and electricity circuits. Students complete an 11 page packet about electricity.
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Electrical Current

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students describe an electrical current and the factors that determine the resistance of an object.  In this electrical current lesson plan students discuss their knowledge of voltage, current and resistance.
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Using electricity

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore how a switch can be used to break a circut. Students construct a simple series circuit and use it for a purpose. Students read the "The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch,or one of the "Katie Morag" stories which clearly shows...
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Energy

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Wow! Colorful and simple, these 160 slides introduce the various forms of energy, along with a relevant image. Some of the images are animations, which help beginning physical scientists to visualize the flow of electrons or energy! This...
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Circuits and Conductors

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the concepts of circuits and conductors. In this circuits and conductors lesson set, 4th graders watch demonstrations of circuits and look at images to identify whether they are complete circuits. They test...
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Electrical

For Students 4th - 8th
In this electrical activity, students identify and locate vocabulary words in a word search that are related to electricity. There are 27 words in the puzzle.
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Switcheroo

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils construct a simple switch and determine what objects and what types of materials can be used to close a switch in a circuit and light a light bulb.
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Electricity

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
For this electricity worksheet, students compare open and closed circuits, calculate voltage, and determine total resistance is resistors are parallel or series in a circuit. This worksheet has 19 problems to solve.
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Circuits

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discover the differences between parallel and series circuits. They draw and construct the two types of circuits using wires, bulbs, batteries, sockets, and switches.
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Flowing Electrons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners act out different types of circuits, and create their own circuits using wire, a bulb, a battery and a switch.
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Electromagnets

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars are introduced to the relationship between electricity and magnetism. Using a compass, they observe and record the effects of placing the object near magnetic fields and electric currents. They also experiment using a...
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Lemon "Juice"

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Middle schoolers explore the concept of electricity in this lesson as they measure the electricity that a lemon gives off. Learners use volt meters to measure the amount of electricity coming from the lemon. Your class will also measure...
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Powered Up About Electricity!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners study the process of turning coal into electricity. In this electricity lesson, students are guided by their teacher through the steps required to turn coal into electricity. Learners complete a worksheet answering questions...
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Electricity: Going with the Flow!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore a simple circuit. They experiment with a wire, light bulb and a bettery to see how many ways they can make the light bulb light up. Students describe how they were or were not ablt to light the bulb.
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Simply Circuitry and Series Circuit

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners investigate a series circuit. In this physical science lesson, students use a battery, switch, and light bulbs to build an electrical circuit. Learners identify the standard symbols being used in electric circuitry.
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Circuits- Lock-out/ Tag-out

For Students 10th - 12th
In this circuits worksheet, students answer eight questions about different types of circuits, grounding cables to reduce electric shock, circuit breakers and locking and tagging a disconnect device.
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Stepper Motor

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare a stepper motor from a traditional motor. In this physics instructional activity, students summarize how it works. They build their own stepper motor and explore its uses.