TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Ampere's Law
The lesson begins with a demonstration introducing students to the force between two current carrying loops, comparing the attraction and repulsion between the loops to that between two magnets. After formal lecture on Ampere's law,...
NASA
Nasa: Image Science Center: Ask the Space Scientist
A NASA space scientist provides 98 questions and answers about the sun, the center of our solar system.
NASA
Nasa: Image Science Center: Soda Bottle Magnetometer
Help students explore Earth's magnetic field with this soda bottle magnetometer activity. Follow links to other space projects for the classroom.
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Physics: Light Ii: Electromagnetism
Instructional module focusing on light and electromagnetism. Discussion includes historical discoveries that led to the understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to...
Other
Physics.org: Frogs Levitate in a Strong Enough Magnetic Field
Captivating information about how frogs can levitate in magnetic fields. Easy to understand, it also explains how the Earth's magnetic field is produced.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Building an Electromagnet
Students design and construct an electromagnet that must pick up 10 staples. They begin with only minimal guidance, and after the basic concept is understood, are informed of the properties that affect the strength of that magnet. They...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Physics: Electricity and Magnetism
College-level physics course highlighting electromagnetism. This course also includes a wide variety of other physics topics including lightning, electrocardiograms, metal detectors, and atom smashers, to name a few. Course includes a...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Magnetism and Electromagnetism
In this interactive learning module, students learn about the basic properties of magnetism. Practice problems are provided for ongoing assessment.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Faraday's Electromagnetic Lab
Investigate with a bar magnet and coils to learn about Faraday's law. You can also play with electromagnets, generators, and transformers!
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Slinkies as Solenoids
In this activity, students use an old fashion children's toy, a metal slinky, to mimic and understand the magnetic field generated in an MRI machine. The metal slinky mimics the magnetic field of a solenoid, which forms the basis for the...
Other
University of Texas Arlington: Isostasy, Gravity, Magnetism, and Internal Heat
An in-depth look at how isostasy works and the processes taking place during glaciation and the melting of glaciers. Looks at gravity and the effects of density differences within the crust and mantle, and at Earth's magnetic field and...
Other
Earth ref.org: Magnetics Information Consortium: Essentials of Paleomagnetism
This is the fifth version of a free textbook on paleomagnetism, published in 2018. The material is advanced but does provide information on many different topics for students doing research. Chapters include problems for students to...
Michigan Technological University
Michigan Technological University: Keweenaw Geoheritage: Paleomagnetism
This website grew out of a field trip to Isle Royale, an island in Lake Superior, to study its geology. This page explains the concept of paleomagnetism, evidence that can be found around Lake Superior, and some magnetic anomalies that...
Utah State Office of Education
Utah Science: Magnetized
A unit all about magnets! Explore magnetic forces, types of magnets, and more through these informative activities.
Other
Bc Hydro: Power Smart for Schools: Electromagnetism
This set of activities has students using everyday items (batteries, magnets, compasses, iron and paper clips) to reveal the connection between electricity and magnetism. Ideally, students will already have experience building simple...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Planet Magnet
Students use iron filings to explore the magnetic field around a magnet and record their observations then apply their experience with the magnet to understand the magnetic field around Earth.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: The Sun Earth Connection: The Magnetic Sun
Students will build a simple version of a magnetometer and use it to discover the types of areas of the Sun that have very strong magnetic fields. Students will then describe what the types of features associated with the Sun's strongest...
Open Ed
Open Ed Sci: 8.3 Forces at a Distance
This unit launches with a slow-motion video of a speaker as it plays music. In the previous unit, students developed a model of sound. This unit allows students to investigate the cause of a speaker's vibration in addition to the effect.
Other
Stile: 2.1 Lesson: Electromagnetism (Part 1)
This is a sample lesson on electromagnetism. It includes animated diagrams, interactive exercises, an audio option for reading the text, and comprehension questions throughout where students can type their answers or pick from...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: How Electrons Move
A collection of interactive activities and games to explore how electric fields and magnetic fields move electrons and charged particles in directions that can be planned. Understand that knowing how to control the movement of electrons...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Electricity and Magnetism
Georgia State University provides an indexing page for several other pages at the same site which contain information on electricity and magnetism concepts. Pages linked from this page contain many informative graphics, equations,...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Voltage
Electrical currents and voltage are defined and illustrated.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Magnetic Field in a Slinky
Students use a Magnetic Field Sensor to measure the magnetic field and the current in a solenoid. They explore factors that affect the magnetic field, study how the field varies in parts of the solenoid, and determine the permeability...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Electromagnets
This lesson plan contains several activities designed to help the student understand the magnetic effects of an electrical current.