Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Hans Oersted (1777 1851)
A solid telling of Oersted's scientific achievements, along with some interesting insight into Oersted's personal beliefs. Many links.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Flash Animations for Physics
This site boasts an extensive list of physics animations that cover topics such as electricity, magnetism, quantum mechanics, and relativity. Variables can be manipulated for each demonstration.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Magnetism
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson, designed for upper-level high school students, has students linearize the data describing the force of a magnet at various distances. While it is assumed students already know...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Ac Circuit Analysis
This electrical engineering activity uses a TI graphing calculator to analyze AC circuits including sine waves, capacitance and inductive reactance, solving series AC circuits, and RMS calculations.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Iron Fortified Food
After studying that iron is attracted to magnets, students will use magnets to find food-grade iron filings from iron-fortified food.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Magnets: What "Sticks"
While working in small groups, students will learn about magnetism by exploring what does and does not "stick" to a manget. Students will learn that only objects made of metal stick to magnets but not all objects made of metal stick.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating How to Create a Stronger Electromagnet
In this lesson plan, students will investigate what they can do to produce a stronger electromagnet. Students will use the scientific thinking process to conduct investigations and build explanations. They will present their discoveries...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Introduction to Open and Closed Electrical Circuits
This activity introduces students to the concepts of electrical current and open and closed circuits. Students will act out open and closed circuits as a whole class with some students acting as the "motors" or "light bulbs."
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Exploring Magnetism: Investigating the Forces of Magnets
Students describe and create an experiment to prove that like poles of magnets repel each other while opposite poles attract. Using the experiment, they use the data to support the claim that the repelling force is stronger than the...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Magnetism and Sound: Creating Your Own Headphones
Students will explore how magnets can create a current by making their own headphones and listening to music from their iPods.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Discovering the Hidden Properties of Magnets
In this lesson, students determine which objects are helpful in determining the location and position of magnets that are hidden inside of closed boxes.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Magnetism: What Are Magnets and Why Do They Attract or Repel
In this magnetism activity, learners investigate why magnets attract certain objects and how the magnets can attract or repel each other by participating in a classroom activity. Students will observe, question, and investigate how the...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Magnet Attraction
What is a magnet? In this activity, students will investigate magnets and what they attract. They will observe, explore, ask questions, predict outcomes, then discuss and record their findings.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Motors and Magnetism
Students will build a simple DC motor out of metal coat hangers, a 24-guage wire armature and field magnet, 14-guage wire brushes, and build the motor so that it rotates when connected to a 10-volt DC power supply. Students will...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Diamagnetism
Wikipedia.com offers a good introduction to diamagnetism and diamagnetic materials, including discussion of how superconductors exhibit diamagnetic properties.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Magnetism
Detailed information on magnetism, a physics phenomenon. Page includes a hyperlinked table of contents for easy navigation. Wikipedia is an online wiki, popular (not scholarly) in nature.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Magnetic Force Three Wires Model
Investigate the idea of the force between straight current-carrying wires in this magnetic force simulation. See if you can rank the wires from largest to smallest based on the magnitude of their currents.
Math Science Nucleus
I. Science Ma Te: Integrating Science, Math and Technology
This site offers a wealth of online textbook-related materials that encourage the discovery of science in the world around us. Enter the site to access material on specific topics. Each section contains reading material (complete with...
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: Magnets and Electromagnets
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining atomic history. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along with your...
Symmetry Magazine
Symmetry Magazine: Explain It in 60 Seconds: String Theory
String Theory, a theory about how the universe works, is explained briefly here. "Explain It In 60 Seconds" is an article series that aims to summarize in a few paragraphs the meaning of different concepts in particle physics.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Charles Augustin De Coulomb
Spanish-language site lets students discover the life and work of this physicist and engineer, who is known for his studies of electric charges.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Curie Temperature
In this experiment, students experience the Curie point--and what happens when a piece of iron gets too hot to attract a magnet.
Other
Fearof Physics: Videos
Looking for some more explanantion on a topic covered in physics class? This site contains videos that explore some physics concepts. Videos are broken down by topics. Some videos also give examples on how to solve problems.
Other
University of Kiel: Paramagnetism
Although this is a technical description of paramagnetism, with many equations, it is still possible to glean conceptual information with a little bit of work.