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Get Connected with Ohm's Law Lesson PlanGet Connected with Ohm's Law Lesson Plan
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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5th - 12th
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Get Connected with Ohm's Law

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Ideal for your electricity unit, especially with middle schoolers, this lesson plan gets engineers using multimeters in electrical circuits to explore the relationships among voltage, current, and resistance. Older learners may even plot data on graphs to see the E-I curves. It's a full-fledged resource for your physical science learners!

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

circuits, currents, electricity, ohm's law, resistance, voltage

Additional Tags

voltage, resistance, current, electricity, circuit, ohm's law, science

Pros

  • Richly detailed teacher's notes even include photos and diagrams of circuit setup
  • Lab sheet includes vocabulary, concept explanations, diagrams, graphs, and problems to solve 
  • Meets various Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards

Cons

  • None

Common Core

5.MD.A.1 5.G.A.2 6.RP.A.3.a 6.EE.A.2.a 6.EE.B.6 6.EE.B.7 7.RP.A.2.a 7.RP.A.2.c 8.F.A.1 HSA-CED.A.4 HSA-REI.B.3

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