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Three Ways to Generate Electricity Lesson PlanThree Ways to Generate Electricity Lesson Plan
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Bonneville
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7th - 8th
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Three Ways to Generate Electricity

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Get your hands on electricity. Pupils investigate magnetic fields and make the connection to generators in the fourth lesson in a series of six lessons on wind versus solar energy. Learners use a small electric motor as a generator to create enough electricity to light a bulb. They then replace the electric motor with a photoelectric cell to demonstrate another way of generating electricity.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

energy, generating electricity, magnetic fields, energy transformation, circuits, photovoltaic cells, turbines

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Research how energy is generated locally

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires several materials for each group
  • Uses a multimeter to find voltage

Pros

  • Contains links to videos to help with how the activities should work
  • Includes a list of key vocabulary

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RST.6-8.3 RST.6-8.4

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