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Curated OER

Help Wanted: A Lighting Engineer For Popular Rock Group

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are assigned to groups, and determine each member's role in the group. They will design an experiment to determine a way to produce the three primary and five secondary colors. Students discuss color and mood. They listen to a...
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Curated OER

Airplane Propeller

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine the different kinds of propellers and their functions.  In this airplane activity students build a hand made propeller.
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Curated OER

Forces And Energy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the atom and how it is formed. They conduct research using a variety of resources and then construct a model of the atom. Then students have class discussion. The instructional activity includes background...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Static Electricity: Snap, Crackle, Jump

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, see static electricity make breakfast cereal jump and hair stand on end. [2:49]
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Static Electricity: Creating Lightning on Much Smaller Scale

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this elementary science activity, students will experiment with static electricity using balloons. After investigating how balloons attract and repel various objects, students will watch a simulation of static electricity to help gain...
Instructional Video
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Static Electricity

For Students 9th - 10th
Static electricity is an electric charge on the surface of an object. When the difference between the charge on the object and the charge on a nearby object becomes great enough, a spark of electric current leaps between them. Learn...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Static Electricity Thunder and Lightning

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An activity where students simulate the creation of thunder and lightning using simple materials, and learn how static electricity can produce sound.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Electric Girl

For Students 3rd - 8th
Anna loves electricity. Watch her construct a homemade flashlight and show off her new, electrifying hairdo in this video segment from ZOOM. [3:05]
Instructional Video
Scholastic

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

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short quiz on electricity, covering static electricity, lightning, and energy generated from electricity. [3:20]
Instructional Video
Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Electricity & Electric Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
Mr. Andersen introduces the topic of electricity. He differentiates between static electricity and current electricity. An introduction to electric circuits is also included.
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Physics #13: Statics

For Students 9th - 10th
The Physics we're talking about today has saved your life! Whenever you walk across a bridge or lean on a building, Statics are at work. Statics is the study of objects when they're NOT accelerating. In this video [9:07] episode of Crash...
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course History of Science #27: Electricity

For Students 9th - 10th
The study of electricity goes all the way back to antiquity. But, by the time electricity started to become more well known, a few familiar names started to appear. Edison, Galvani, Ohm, Ampere, Volta, and a few others really changed the...
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Physics #25: Electric Charge

For Students 9th - 10th
Moving on to the unit on the Physics of Electricity, it's time to talk about charge. What is charge? Are there positive and negative charges? What do those things mean? In this video episode, Shini talks about electrostatic forces,...
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McREL International

Mc Rel: Whelmer #31 Activity: Static Charged 2x4s

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A simple activity that investigates the basic principles behind static electricity. The activity is in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Take Charge!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students come to understand static electricity by learning about the nature of electric charge, and different methods for charging objects. In a hands-on activity, students induce an electrical charge on various objects, and experiment...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Electrostatic Telegraphs (Case Study)

For Students 9th - 10th
A study of static electricity including the contributions from Thales, George Louis Le Sage, Alessandro Volta, Benjamin Franklin.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Nova Teachers: Lightning: Classroom Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan allows students can create static electricity and compare it to lightning.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Electrostatic Telegraphs (Case Study)

For Students 6th - 9th
Long before the internet people thought about sending information along wires using static electricity.
Instructional Video
Next Vista for Learning

Next Vista for Learning: Super Soda: Phenomena Science

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A video where students observe a situation and explain why a phenomena in science happens. This illustrates static electricity as a balloon is attracted to a coke can. [0:44]
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Lights Out!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson introduces the concept of electricity by asking students to imagine what their life would be like without electricity. Two main forms of electricity, static and current, are introduced. Students learn that electrons can move...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lightning!

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA explains the mysterious force of lightning.
Instructional Video
SciShow

Sci Show Kids: What Causes Thunder & Lightning

For Students 5th - 8th
A video investigating how charges build up in clouds until it released with lightening jumping from cloud to cloud or cloud to ground as electrical charges move. Also discussed is how thunder is created when heat from lightning causes...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How Do Balloons Interact When Rubbed Together?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate how two balloons interact with objects and each other when rubbed with a wool cloth. The students will also develop new testable questions and perform experiments to further their learning.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Discovery of Triboelectric Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
Our ancestors noticed that when amber was rubbed against fur it attracted small objects...why is this? Watch this video for a demonstration. [0:51]

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