Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Earth's Energy
A hands-on lesson for helping students understand simple circuits, series circuits, and parallel circuits, and the differences between the three.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Heat and Light From Electricity
Understand the energy transformations that happens when you light a bulb with a battery. Activity requires students to build a simple circuit and take temperature and time measurements. Lab includes procedure with questions that can be...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Series and Parallel Circuits
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What series and parallel circuits are and how they differ.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Common Misconceptions Regarding Electric Circuits
In this tutorial, preconceived ideas regarding the nature of charge flow and the role of a battery in a circuit are addressed. In many instances, these preconceived notions about charge flow and batteries are incorrect ideas and are...
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.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Introduction to Electric Circuits
This activity will show how to properly connect wires to make a closed electric circuit. Included in this will be how to connect batteries in series and/or in parallel, and how to properly measure potential drops across a resistor and...
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.
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Calculations From Circuit Diagrams
Practice calculating potential difference, resistance, and current for a component from a circuit diagram.
Other
Electricity: Simple Circuits
Create your own simple electric circuit. Using simple supplies build your own battery and investigate conductivity. You can also construct a crossword puzzle with electrical vocabulary words.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Lights On!
Students in this activity will build simple circuits using a battery, wires, and light bulbs. This activity allows students to examine how electricity is conducted through a light bulb using a battery as a power source. Students will...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Circuit Elements of a Simple Defibrillator
This is a five-question quiz related to circuit elements of a simple defibrillator.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Electric Circuits: Lesson 3
This lesson will explain how to calculate voltage, current, and resistance in simple electric circuits. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Electric Circuits."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Logic Circuits
Check your understanding of how simple logic circuits of AND/OR/NOT gates can output 0 or 1 based on inputs.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Electric Potential Difference
This tutorial is devoted to an understanding of electric potential difference and its application to the movement of charge in electric circuits. Take the interactive quiz to assess your understanding.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Can You Resist This?
This lab demonstrates Ohm's law as students set up simple circuits each composed of a battery, lamp and resistor. Students calculate the current flowing through the circuits they create by solving linear equations. After solving for the...
Other
Bc Hydro: Power Smart for Schools: Electromagnetism
This set of activities has students using everyday items (batteries, magnets, compasses, iron and paper clips) to reveal the connection between electricity and magnetism. Ideally, students will already have experience building simple...
Walter Fendt
Walter Fendt: Simple Ac Circuits
This simulation shows a simple circuit consisting of an AC voltage source and, depending on the button selected, a resistor, a capacitor or a coil.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: What Is an Electric Circuit?
In this tutorial the concept of electric potential difference is discussed. Electric potential is the amount of electric potential energy per unit of charge that would be possessed by a charged object if placed within an electric field...
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Cl Circuit
Shows how simple harmonic motion is used in a circuit comprised of an inductor and a capacitor. Includes detailed formula derivation utilizing calculus.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Finding Battery Voltage Simple
Determine the voltage of the battery based on the colors of the resistor and the current in the circuit.
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.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Simple Circuitry and Series Circuit
A teacher lesson plan which could be easily converted into an idea for a student project or presentation. This page describes an activity in which the basic nature of a circuit and the concepts of a series circuit are investigated....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Conductivity
Students make a simple conductivity tester using a battery and light bulb. They learn the difference between conductors and insulators of electrical energy as they test a variety of materials for their ability to conduct electricity.
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