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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Coulomb's Law and Induced Polarization

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Engage your aspiring physicists in a series of lab activities directied at demonstrating the behavior of electric force. In completing these exercises, learners will explore Coulomb's and Gauss's Laws. Well-written directions to four...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A POSITIVELY NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners work in cooperative learning groups to discover how Gauss's law applies to conductors and dielectric materials. They use an electroscope to detect electrostatic charge and determine location of charges during static charge.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Gauss' Law

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners derive the equation of Gauss's law. In this physics instructional activity, students investigate the factors affecting the strength of the electric field. They perform simulation on Gauss's law.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Gauss' Law

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive lesson students will be introduced to an electric flux, Gaussian surface and charge density.
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Gauss's Law

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures about Gauss's Law taught at East Los Angeles College The course teaches about the alternative method to calculate the electric field with explanations and examples. Site includes fourteen lectures that vary...
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Handout
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Electric Field and Potential

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An electrostatic simulation that moves beyond the two-dimensional representations a book may provide. Try this Gauss' Law model which shows the electric field and potential for cylindrical and spherical symmetry.