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Circuits

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students draw a schematic diagram of parts needed to build an op-amp. In this physics lesson, students test the operation of their machine. They graph and analyze data using excel.
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Teach Engineering

How a Hybrid Works

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Work with your class to connect series and parallel circuits to hybrid cars. The lesson introduces basic circuit diagrams before having scholars apply the understanding of the difference between parallel and series circuits to hybrid cars. 
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Electrifying Electricity

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the basics of electricity using common everyday items as well as demonstrate how parallel and series circuits can be used in electronics and electrical devices. They explore how common items in their world can be wired...
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Electrical Generators

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students study what an electric generator does and its history.  In this energy lesson students complete several experiments including building their own electric generator.
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Teach Engineering

Can You Resist This?

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Some things are hard to resist. Small collaborative groups build circuits and calculate the voltage using Ohm's Law. Budding engineers explore the connection between the voltage across different resistors and linear functions with...
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Oranges and Batteries

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Orange you glad you can make circuits using fruit? Young electricians learn about electric circuits and electricity. As part of the lesson, they build a circuit with an orange and then with a banana.
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How do Ohm's Law and Constraint-Based Reasoning Help in Thinking About Circuits?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate Ohm's Law. Through experimentation, students observe Ohm's law. Using the voltage and resistance, students calculate with Ohm's law. Students collaborate in other activities to apply Ohm's Law to series and...
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Physics: Electricity and Magnetism

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars draw series and parallel electrical circuits. In this electromagnet lesson, students describe how current changes depend on circuit components. Young scholars use an OHT of a series and parallel circuit to predict the path...
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Series and Parallel Circuits

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners explore the differences between a parallel and a series circuit.In this current lesson students complete several experiments using a light bulb.
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Basic Circuits

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explain the difference between a closed circuit and an open circuit. They construct simple to more complicated series and parallel circuits. They explain the difference between a series and parallel circuit.
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Electricity Newsletter

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create a newsletter about electricity. They view a completed newsletter and discuss its information and format and research the Internet to find facts about electricity. After researching their facts, they write a rough draft of...
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Electrical Engineering - The Inside Story

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students review electricity. In this physics lesson plan, students attempt to find a way to determine if a transformer is fixing to fail. The lesson reviews electricity concepts that the students should already be familiar with.
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Earth's Energy

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discuss the Earth's energy. In this science lesson plan, students construct a simple circuit, a series circuit, and a parallel circuit.
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WHAT MAKES A LIGHT BULB LIGHT?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars are able to use inquiry to answer the essential questions. They are able to predict and test configurations of a battery, bulb, and wire that make the complete circuit. Students craft a group and individual theory of a...
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Ohm's Law I

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work to increase the intensity of a light bulb by testing batteries in series and parallel circuits. They analyze Ohm's Law, power, parallel and series circuits, and ways to measure voltage and current.
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Interactive Question Asker

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice studying chapters from a unit by creating an electric circuit.  In this electronic studying lesson, students utilize a file folder, hole punch, foil, light bulb and battery to create a wired circuit behind answers to...
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Wire Maze

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils investigate what causes electrical circuits to work. They construct a wire circuit and pass a paperclip through the maze, trying not to touch the wire, and answer discussion questions.
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Bulbs & Batteries Side by Side

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners build parallel circuits, exploring how they function and looking at their unique features. They describe how current changes when batteries are added in parallel or removed from a parallel arrangement, demonstrate the process of...
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Let There Be Light

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore electricity. For this electricity lesson, 5th graders experiment with open and closed circuits. Students determine how to properly connect a battery and bulb to illuminate the bulb.
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Bonneville

Engaging with Solar Panels

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Build a fan and become a fan of solar power. The second of 14 lessons in the Cost Effective Solar Cells unit has learners first construct circuits with solar cells to power a fan, a motor, and an LED. They then test their circuits both...
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Electrical Symbols - Making Circuits from Circuit Diagrams

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students draw different electrical circuit symbols. In this electricity lesson, students construct simple circuits based on circuit diagrams. They share their findings to class.
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Circuit Boards

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils explore circuit boards. They determine that a complete circuit is needed to light the bulbs, experiment with the boards to develop strategies for finding where the hidden connections are, and develop strategies that can be used to...
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Measuring Electricity

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine electricity, what its uses are and how it works.  In this exploring electricity lesson students study voltage, resistance, current and OHM's law. 
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Light – Just Right!

For Teachers 4th Standards
What does it mean to be resistant to electricity? Scholars answer the question in a six-part STEM lesson on electricity. They begin by assessing the conductivity of several different materials and progress to designing their own circuits...

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