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Easyphysics: Chapter 15 the Circuit

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners investigate circuits. Some topics examined are a photo resistor, capacitor, and diode. The resource includes a circuit applet.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Electricity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity, young scholars will explore electricity and be able to design and create a complete electrical circuit. Students will also learn what is necessary to light a light bulb. Creative thought, ideas, and,...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Measuring Voltage in Series Parallel Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
Measuring voltage drops across resistances in series-parallel circuits requires an understanding of both series and parallel circuit behavior. Learn more with this tutorial.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Measuring Current in Parallel Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
When measuring the current in parallel circuits, compare the circuit's total current with the current through just one resistor.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Measuring Voltage in Series Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
Measuring the voltage in a circuit is like measuring the drop in pressure across two points. Learn more with this tutorial.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Calculating Current in Parallel Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Ohm's Law to calculate the current in parallel circuits.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Electrifying the World

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This instructional activity introduces students to the fundamental concepts of electricity. This is accomplished by addressing questions such as "How is electricity generated," and "How is it used in every-day life?" The instructional...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Flowing Electrons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this fifth grade activity, students explore electric circuits by acting out different types, then construct circuits themselves.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Can You Resist This?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
This lab demonstrates Ohm's law as students set up simple circuits each composed of a battery, lamp and resistor. Students calculate the current flowing through the circuits they create by solving linear equations. After solving for the...
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Other

Electricity: Simple Circuits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Create your own simple electric circuit. Using simple supplies build your own battery and investigate conductivity. You can also construct a crossword puzzle with electrical vocabulary words.
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Learn AP Physics

Learn Ap Physics: Physics B: Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
A site dedicated to help students prepare for the AP Physics B test. This specific site reviews circuits including current, resistance, power, Ohm's law, batteries, DC circuits, transformers, and car coils. Site contains links to video...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Introduction to Electric Circuits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will show how to properly connect wires to make a closed electric circuit. Included in this will be how to connect batteries in series and/or in parallel, and how to properly measure potential drops across a resistor and...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Introduction to Open and Closed Electrical Circuits

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This activity introduces students to the concepts of electrical current and open and closed circuits. Students will act out open and closed circuits as a whole class with some students acting as the "motors" or "light bulbs."
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Electricity: Building Circuits in Elementary Science Class

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this exploration activity, students compare the difference between series circuits and parallel circuits using wire, light bulbs, and D batteries.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Lessons in Electric Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn anything you ever wanted to know and more about electrical circuits here. Complete with in-depth explanations and detailed diagrams.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Series and Parallel Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers information on two basic ways of wiring components in electrical circuits, series and parallel circuits.
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Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Series Circuit Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab is designed to have students investigate the relationships between voltage, resistance and current in a series circuit with up to three passive components. The batteries in this simulation can be varied from ideal batteries to...
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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Physics Ii: Electricity and Magnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a fundamentals of physics course taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The course is the second in the sequence and focuses on electricity and magnetism The videos feature topics on...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: From Sunlight to Electric Current

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The lesson will first explore the concept of current in electrical circuits. Current will be defined as the flow of electrons. Photovoltaic (PV) cell properties will then be introduced. This will lead to the principle of "Conservation of...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer an Electric Switch

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using your knowledge of the flow of electricity, do you think you could build a switch that can complete a circuit to turn on an LED? This site contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their...
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Hunkins Experiments

Hunkin's Experiments: Electric Shocks!!

For Students 9th - 10th
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. These...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Science: Electricity 101

For Students 1st - 9th
Kid's learn about the basic science of electricity. What is it and how it works.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Circuits and Magnetic Fields

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use the same method as in the activity from lesson 2 to explore the magnetism due to electric current instead of a permanent magnet. Students use a compass and circuit to trace the magnetic field lines induced...
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Resistances in Series and Parallel Circuits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A teacher lesson plan is provided here. This page describes two activities in which the effect of multiple resistors on the current and overall resistance of both series and parallel circuits are investigated. Complete activity...

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