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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Series and Parallel Circuits

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners demonstrate simple circuits and find the differences between parallel and serial circuits.  In this electronic lesson plan students work in teams to test different designs using a low voltage light bulb. 
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Electricity

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners explore electricity. After watching a PowerPoint presentation, students discuss the composition of electricity and how it is made. They participate in discovery activities by rotation through four activity stations set up on the...
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Electricity - How it Works and How We Measure and Pay For It

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate energy consumption by researching wattage.  In this electricity lesson, students discuss how electricity works and gets transferred to our electronic devices through generators and circuits.  Students examine their...
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Switched Capacitor Circuitry

For Students Higher Ed
In this electronics worksheet, students complete 15 short answers and problem solving questions related to capacitance circuits.
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Electric Current: The Light Output from a Light Bulb

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars investigate the energy used by a light bulb. In this electrical energy lesson plan, students conduct an investigation to explain the relationship between the output of light and the electrical power used by a light bulb.
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Electricity and Energy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students demonstrate that electricity can flow in a circuit. They demonstrate safe practices during lab investigations.
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Electricity Crossword

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this electricity worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle by figuring out the vocabulary words associated with the 20 clues given.
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Electric Circuits

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students model the flow of electrons in a circuit, draw diagrams of an electric circuit and build an electric circuit. Students explain how to tell when the path of an electric circuit is complete, and test the conductivity of a variety...
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Changing circuits

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students identify that there are conventional symbols to represent the components in circuits. Students use these symbols to draw diagrams of circuits. They are reminded that electric circuits can be drawn in diagrams using symbols. ...
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Autograph Hunt Circuits Symbols

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Use this presentation as a way to review circuits in the classroom. It could provide a jumping-off point for a discussion of this topic, or as a review once the main concepts have been covered. Augmenting it with more information would...
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Interview With An Electric Light Bulb

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this electric light bulb instructional activity, students answer short answer questions about an electric light bulb by pretending they are answering interview questions and they are the light bulb. Students complete 7 questions total.
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Resistance In Series And Parallel Circuits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate electric circuits. In this electricity lesson, students observe illumination in a series and parallel circuits. They predict and calculate the resistance in each type of circuit using a voltmeter.
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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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Organizer
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Changing Circuits

For Students 4th
In this electrical circuits worksheet, students look at 6 diagrams of circuits and write whether they think the bulb would light or not. Students mark each diagram according to whether they think it will light or not.
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Organizer
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Circuit Symbols

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this electrical circuits worksheet, students study 10 diagrams of circuit parts and vocabulary words. These diagrams involve switches and batteries.
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Electric Circuits

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore energy by completing an electricity worksheet. In this conductors lesson, students define the energy related vocabulary terms circuit, electronics, conductor and semi-conductor before examining computer chips in class....
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Interactive
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Performance-Based Assessments for DC Circuit Competencies

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this DC circuits instructional activity, students are assessed given 31 schematics of DC circuits and they determine the given conditions, the parameters and an analysis of each.
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Interactive
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Passive Integrator and Differentiator Circuits

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this circuits worksheet, students answer 25 questions about passive integrator circuits and passive differentiator circuits given schematics showing voltage. Students use calculus to solve the problems.
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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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Many Paths

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the composition and practical application of parallel circuitry, compared to series circuitry. They design and build parallel circuits and investigate their characteristics, and apply Ohm's law. They recognize that...
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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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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Insulators and Conductors

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In a classic activity, emerging electricians test various objects for electrical conductivity in a circuit. Each group constructs a simple circuit by following a diagram. Predictions are made and objects are inserted into the circuit,...
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Solar Kit Lesson #5 - Build a Simple Ammeter

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Emerging electricians build a simple ammeter for making measurements on an electric current. They test the placement of solar cells in both series and parallel circuits and examine the magnetic field produced by the movement of electrons...
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Get Charged!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the concept of electricity in this activity based unit.  For this physical science lesson, students focus on electricity and electrical engineering. The teaching unit includes 5 activities to develop students conceptual...

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