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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Get Your Motor Running

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate motors and electromagnets as they construct their own simple electric motors using batteries, magnets, paper clips and wire.
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Website
Other

Motorline: Motorsport

For Students 9th - 10th
Austrian Racing site in German with many images that can be navigated by beginners. Numerous links to images, games, screen savers, motorcycles, Formula 1 racing (Formel 1) and cars in general (Autowelt).
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Basic Electrical Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the basic concepts of electrical technology. Webpage includes thirty-nine lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures...
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Article
Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Very Simple Screw 'Motor'

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the design of a simple 'motor' made from a magnetized screw and a battery.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Animals: Human Nervous System: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides an overview that explains the nervous system in humans. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Animals: Human Nervous System."
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Animals: Human Nervous System: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides an overview that explains the nervous system in humans. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Animals: Human Nervous System."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Animals: Human Nervous System: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides an overview that explains the nervous system in humans. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Animals: Human Nervous System."
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Handwriting

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed for students to come up to the Activboard and practice their writing motor skills.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Handwriting Exercises

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This series of pages is designed for students to practice the fine and large motor skills to prepare for cursive writing. Occupational therapists say that working on a vertical surface is optimal for...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: It's a Kid's World: Body Sense

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate potential and kinetic energy by investigating the elasticity of a metal coil toy, the Slinky. Explore the development of muscle coordination in children and measure how practice improves performance of motor skills.