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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the advanced analog integrated circuits. Webpage includes twenty-seven lectures from a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Lectures vary in length and...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Norway: What Happens When Parts of a Circuit Are Changed?

For Students 4th - 6th
Join Mathias as he takes care of the electrical problems in his uncle's office. Help him figure it out, and fix the lights.
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
Step into Dirtmeister's Science Lab as he sets out to answer the challenge question: "How can you make a flashlight shine brigher?" Learn about circuits, make your predictions and then do the experiment.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Current Electricity Lights On

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
An exploratory lesson plan that provides the learners with a chance to discover the possible connections in an electrical circuit in a controlled setting.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Modeling Emf, Potential Difference, and Internal Resistance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Interactive lecture discusses internal resistance which provides help to students in developing an accurate model.
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Article
Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Two Low Power Led Flashers

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the design of two circuits that can flash an LED from a single 1.5V battery. A typical LED needs 2-3V to work properly and both these circuits include a voltage doubler to boost the voltage to drive the LED. Both circuits will...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Series and Parallel Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers information on two basic ways of wiring components in electrical circuits, series and parallel circuits.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Capacitance and Inductance

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about capacitors and inductors and their role in electrical circuits.
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Interactive
University of Virginia

Uva Virtual Lab: Circuit Components and Symbols

For Students 9th - 10th
Know the terms of circuit parts as well as their symbols when studying circuits. Scroll over the vocabulary. Some terms will have animations as well.
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Unit Plan
Channel 4 Learning

4 L: Science Essentials: Get Physical

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Find a review of many aspects of the physical world. Simple explanations of electricity, gravity, and the solar system. Included are materials for teachers to use for enrichment.
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Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Bullet Speed

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial takes a shot at explaining how circuits can be used to measure things beyond the capacity of human senses.
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Interactive
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Transformers

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this interactive, simple transformer to make a complete circuit via induction using two separate coils with iron cores inside.
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Website
Careers New Zealand

Career Nz: Electrician

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information about becoming an Electrician in New Zealand. While some of the information is specific to New Zealand, there is also data that is uniform to the career.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Electricity & Energy Circuits

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about electric circuits. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Radio Reception and Transmission

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teams of young scholars learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, and test a radio receiver and optional transmitter that can receive FM broadcasts. Lesson focuses on how advances in radio communications have...
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Article
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: The Tinkering Studio: Circuit Boards

For Students 5th - 8th
Some history behind the function of the circuit board, with a guided activity guide for students to download.
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Interactive
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Electric Circuits: Circuit Builder

For Students 9th - 10th
Students manipulate this virtual electronic circuit board where they can add resistors, light bulbs, wires, and ammeters to build a circuit, explore Ohm's law, and compare and contrast series, parallel, and combination circuits. Three...
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Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Rc in Ac Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab was designed to help students understand the difference between circuits powered by DC and circuits powered by AC. Students can see that simple changes in frequency lead to changes in the potential difference across the...
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Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Requirements of a Circuit

For Students 9th - 10th
What four arrangements would result in the successful lighting of a lightbulb? And more importantly, what does each of the four arrangements have in common that would lead to an understanding of the two requirements of an electric...
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eBook
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Measuring Phase in Ac Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
See how oscillations in an AC circuit don't always rise and fall together.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Dc Circuits: Parallel Resistances (Sparks 2)

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore circuits with resistors in parallel and answer questions regarding voltage drops across resistors and currents through them in such circuits.
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Activity
Other

Mega Mathematics: Graphs and Graph Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains a clear explanation of the basic terminology of graph theory. The useful for a first introduction to graphs and graph theory.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Determining Asymptotes by Division

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Solve circuitry problems that involve rational functions.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Dollhouse

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the analysis of parallel circuits in the context of a realistic household circuit using our interactive simulation. A PDF worksheet and a video tutorial are also available. [3:24]