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Article
Frontiers Media

Frontiers: Meg for Kids: Listening to Your Brain With Super Cool Squi Ds

For Students 3rd - 8th
Inside your brain, you have over 80 billion neurons - tiny brain cells, all working together to make you the person you are.Neurons talk to each other by sending electrical messages. Each message creates a tiny magnetic field. If enough...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Does an Atom Smashing Particle Accelerator Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
An atom smasher, or particle accelerator, collides atomic nuclei together at extremely high energies, using engineering that exploits incredibly cold temperatures, very low air pressure, and hyperbolically fast speeds. Don Lincoln...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Electromagnetic Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Provides the definition of an electromagnetic wave, electromagnetic radiation, and electric and magnetic fields. Also discusses how electromagnetic waves begin,...
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Handout
Florida State University

Florida State University: Lightning, a Natural Capacitor

For Students 9th - 10th
Text and animated graphic show how lightning is an example of a natural capacitor.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Supplemental Resources: Electromechanical Dynamics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level textbook highlighting the interaction of electromagnetic fields with media in motion. Types of electromechanical interactions discussed include rotating machinery, plasma dynamics, the electromechanics of biological...
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Interactive
Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Apps Zur Physik

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, in German, offers numerous apps that illustrate common physics principles. Apps are organized into categories: mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, physics of...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Light: Electromagnetic Waves, Electromagnetic Spectrum and Photons

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the properties of electromagnetic radiation and photons.
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Website
Physics Central

American Physical Society: Physics Central: Discover Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
Link to nine major physics topics and dig deeper into the content. Find out about the work of scientists in each field and see example physical science experiments.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry: Electrons

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains the determination of properties of the electron.
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Handout
Cornell University

Cornell University: Astronomy: Electromagnetism and Charge

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Cornell University provides a very short, very telling comparison of matter and charge. This is a good site to check out on the subject, with a chart diagram to help with further information.
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium Where Does the Energy of a Spark Come From?

For Students 9th - 10th
Activity 3 investigates Why is lightning so much bigger that a spark from the Van de Graff generator? In Activity 3 of this module, students investigate factors that affect the amount of potential energy that is stored.