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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Get Charged!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the concept of electricity in this activity based unit.  For this physical science lesson, students focus on electricity and electrical engineering. The teaching unit includes 5 activities to develop students conceptual...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Products of an Electrical Engineer

For Teachers K
Students explore products made by an electrical engineer. For this engineering lesson, students complete two worksheets identifying products made by an electrical engineer.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Career Profile: Electrical and Electronics Engineer

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the many pathways available to one who has a career as an electrical or electronics engineer. Design video games, cell phones, GPS systems, anything that requires electricity to work. This Science Buddies site lays out the...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Design a Solar City

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students design and build a model city powered by the sun! They learn about the benefits of solar power, and how architectural and building engineers integrate photovoltaic panels into the design of buildings.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Get Charged!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the idea of electrical energy. They learn about the relationships between charge, voltage, current and resistance. They discover that electrical energy is the form of energy that powers most of their household...
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Handout
Black Past

Black Past: Woods, Granville T.

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating encyclopedia article about Granville Woods, a black inventor,often referred to as the "black Edison."
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Handout
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor of the Week: Nikola Tesla: The Electro Magnetic Motor

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to learn about the inventor of the electro-magnetic motor, Nikola Tesla. Find out why Tesla's experimentation with alternating current was so important to later inventions and use of electricity.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Lee De Forest (1873 1961)

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of Lee De Forest from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Walther Rathenau (1867 1922)

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of Walther Rathenau from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Werner Von Siemens (1816 1892)

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of Werner von Siemens from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Werner Von Siemens (1816 1892)

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of Werner von Siemens from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.