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Fourth Grade Science

For Students 4th
For this science worksheet, 4th graders answer multiple choice questions about coastlines, electric cars, the food chain, and more. Students complete 25 questions.
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Physics Classroom

Charge Interactions

For Students 9th - 12th
Has your class been repelled by your previous magnetism lesson plan? Try a fun interactive instead! The activity, part of the Static Electricity series, challenges scholars to infer the charges of a group of magnets based upon their...
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Interactive
Physics Classroom

Charge and Charging

For Students 9th - 12th
Does your class understand how things become charged? Are you positive? Before negative grades emerge, assign a fun interactive! The first in the five-part Static Electricity series contains three levels of charge-related questions and...
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Lesson 7: Smart Grids

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Energy conservation is a hot topic these days; introduce your kids to the Smart Grid solution through a video clip and several interactive online tools. They discuss areas of household energy consumption, examining a pie chart...
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Introduction to Photovoltaic Systems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The Green Education Foundation found that this lesson plan, written by the Texas State Energy Conservation Office, is right up their alley when it comes to teaching sustainability. It is ideal as a first lesson plan on photovoltaic...
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Scholastic

Study Jams! Energy & Matter

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
After Sam knocks a glass off the lunchroom table, he uses it as a springboard for explaining kinetic and potential energy. He mentions that sound is a type of kinetic energy and introduces the different forms of energy: thermal,...
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Scholastic

On or Off?

For Students 2nd - 4th
How does electricity work? Put an electric circuit into your own hands with a short experiment that makes a switch out of a battery, light bulb, and thumb tacks. Young scientists then respond to short answers about why the circuit works.
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Electricity Safety Video

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss Picture 1 - Electrical Applicances. They discuss their prior knowledge of electricity and then listen to a video. They then answer the questions on the worksheet called, "Lesson 1 Electricity Safety Video" and share...
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Paths of Electrical Currents

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the paths that electrical currents travel. They create a current of electricity using flashlights, bulbs, batteries, wires and tape. They determine how to create a closed circuit that will light the bulb. They...
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Electricity for Kids! It's Shocking!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate the world of electricity by completing a KWL sheet. In this energy lesson, students view PowerPoint presentations about electricity, who invented it, and how it is used today. Students define several electricity...
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What Is Electricity?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate vocabulary words associated with electricity.  In this electrical lesson, students utilize the Internet to research what electricity is and how it works.  Students create an actual circuit in class using a battery,...
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Electric Shock: Caution!

For Students 9th - 12th
In this electricity worksheet, learners read about how electricity flows and the force that causes the flow. Students read about electric shock and then complete 3 short answer questions.
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Science: Electric Fields from Point Charges

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine electric fields using viewers to discover the direction of positive charges and the location of the field's strength. They experiment with positive, negative, like and opposite charges. Students also describe how...
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Electricity Danger

For Teachers K
Students determine how electricity is useful but also can be dangerous. They observe a teacher demonstration of the hazards associated with touching wires using a puppet, batteries, wire, and a light bulb. They devise a list of...
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Curated OER

Electrical Noise and Interference

For Students Higher Ed
For this electronics worksheet, students identify and differentiate the different types of noise. They complete 4 short answer questions about the topic.
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Electricity and Magnetism

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders compare electricity and magnetism. In this science lesson, 4th graders discuss the concepts of electricity and magnetism and brainstorm examples of electrical and magnetic forces.
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What is Electrical Potential and How Does a Relational Causal Model Explain It?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils examine models of electrical potential. Students discuss the concept of electrical potential and relational causality. They compare models based on electric potential to those with cyclic simultaneous causality.
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Safety with Electricity

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this electricity safety learning exercise, students use the word bank to help them complete the sentences that relate to safety when using electricity.
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Curated OER

Heat and electrical resistance (Middle, Science)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils work in teams to create electrical resistance when studying heat and thermal energy.
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Taking Apart Electrical Appliances

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discover that electrical appliances are made up of individual components that work together. They, with partners, demonstrate to others how their piece of equipment or appliance works by taking it apart and examining the...
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Click, Clack, Moo: Electric Blanket Science

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin and discuss the similarities and differences between electric blankets and regular blankets. They brainstorm a list of reasons why the farm animals wanted electric blankets.
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The Electric Guitar: Then and Now

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the history of the electric guitar. In this electric guitar lesson, students use print and Internet sources to research the history of the electric guitar. Students use their research findings to create PowerPoint...
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Electric Car: American Industry and Innovation

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study how an electric car operates.  In this electric car activity students assemble an electric car motor from parts from an internal combustion engine.
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Heat and Electrical Resistance

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discover electrical resistance and how it is directly related to thermal energy through a hands-on activity. Working in groups, they wrap a wire around a thermometer and the positive and negative poles of a D cell battery and...

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