Curated OER
How Powerful is Static Electricity
Students explore energy by participating in controlled electricity experiment. For this static electricity lesson, students identify the different sources that can create energy and how static electricity can be created very easily on...
Curated OER
Magnetic Poles
In this scientific investigation worksheet, students follow the provided procedures to examine positive and negative charges of magnets and then respond to 3 short answer question.
Curated OER
Can You Get A Charge Out Of Matter?
Students observe and demonstrate how objects can be charged positively and negatively and how static electricity works. They observe a teacher-led demonstration, and in small groups rotate through various static electricity activities,...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Electricity: The Mouse Cheese Analogy
This page uses a mouse and cheese analogy to show the relationships involved in electricity through currents and charges. Among the topics covered by the analogy are voltage, resistance and electromagnetism.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Electric Ice Sheet
Balance electric charges to prevent Tommy from slipping into icy water. You are presented with 4 particles, each with a charge value. Using the plus/minus scrollbar, you can change the value of the highlighted charge. Then press the play...
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Electrostatic Maze Game
Give a particle a positive, negative, or neutral charge to move it through a maze using the positive and negative charges within the maze.
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Charging Your Hair
Adjust the voltage on a Van der Graaff generator to see how the charges will affect a person's hair.
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Electrical Charge Maze
Position positive and negative charges to help an electron move through a maze to hit a target.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Self Assembling Lattice Structure
View this simulation to see how lattice structures are formed when particles of different shapes and charges form bonds.
Orpheus Books
Q Files: Electricity and Magnetism: Electric Charge
Learn how electric charges work and about Coulomb's Law, which is used to calculate the strength of an electric force.