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Electricity: Simple Circuits
Create your own simple electric circuit. Using simple supplies build your own battery and investigate conductivity. You can also construct a crossword puzzle with electrical vocabulary words.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Arc Lamp 1876
Fire lighted the night for many centuries. Then came Sir Humphry Davy and the birth of the arc lamp, an invention built upon in the years that followed by many.
BBC
Bb Ci Schools: Revisewise Science Electricity
This lesson provides an interactive activity on electrical circuits along with a information sheet and a practice test.
Physics4kids
Physics4 Kids: Electricity and Magnetism: Current
Explains electric current, how it produces heat, and the difference between a direct current and an alternating current.
BBC
Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: Physical Processes: Electrical Conductors
A review of electrical conductors and insulators, with diagrams, activities, and quiz questions.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Electric Currents and Circuits
This cooperative learning activity for intermediate to junior high students has them create various electrical circuits in order to understand electricity.
Hunkins Experiments
Hunkin's Experiments: How to Make Oxygen From a Battery
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This one...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Kirchhoff's First Law
This site provides a short definition of Kirchoff's First Law as well as illustrations & animations that show how the law works.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Difference Between Alternating and Direct Current
Explains what alternating current and direct current are and what they are used for.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Amperage vs. Voltage What Is the Difference?
This article explains what voltage and amperage are and the effect batteries have on them in an electrical circuit.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute Online: Electrified Ben
This site from the Franklin Institute Online provides a somewhat simplistic but interesting tale of Ben's electrical activities. Fine link to "electricity bells", in Franklin's own words. Some other links to projects, maybe not so...
Upper Canada District School Board
Tom Stretton's Chemistry Pages: Electric Circuits
Learn the voltage formula for determining a measure of current electricity in this illustrated presentation.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Relay
What are relays? Find out about the types of relays, how they work, and how they are used.
Curated OER
Exploratorium: Groovey Sounds: Sound Science Project: Hand Battery
Illustration of a hand battery experiment.