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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Electricity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity, students 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, brainstorming...
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Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Series and Parallel Circuits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The core of this lesson is simple circuits and the differences between parallel and series circuit design. Students perform experiments to test the differences between the two circuit designs using low voltage light bulbs.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Characteristics of Circuit Diagrams

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice identifying the direction of current flow, closed circuits, and open circuits with this multiple choice quiz.
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Activity
Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Science Projects and Experiments: Electric Circuit

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn by experimenting with science. Project on building an electronic circuit.
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Article
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: The Tinkering Studio: Circuit Boards

For Students 5th - 8th
Some history behind the function of the circuit board, with a guided activity guide for students to download.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Electric Current and Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
Students have the opportunity to explore the basics of current and circuits in this online module. Some of the activities include interactive animations, informational text, practice problems, and lab experiments.
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Activity
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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Handout
Upper Canada District School Board

Tom Stretton's Chemistry Pages: Electric Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the voltage formula for determining a measure of current electricity in this illustrated presentation.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Completing the Circuit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In the everyday electrical devices we use - calculators, remote controls and cell phones - a voltage source such as a battery is required to close the circuit and operate the device. In this hands-on activity, students use a battery,...
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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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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Norway: What Happens When Parts of a Circuit Are Changed?

For Students 4th - 6th
Join Mathias as he takes care of the electrical problems in his uncle's office. Help him figure it out, and fix the lights.
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Project Britain

Primary Homework Help: Electricity Questions

For Students 3rd - 8th
Brush up on electricity facts before taking this interactive quiz. Students can get immediate feedback by checking the answers after each question.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Put a Spark in It! Electricity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Uncountable times every day "with the merest flick of a finger"each one of us calls on electricity to do our bidding. What would your life be like without electricity? Students begin learning about electricity with an introduction to the...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Parallel Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students learn what a parallel circuit is and how it differs from a series circuit.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Introduction to Circuits and Ohm's Law

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will explore the basics of dc circuits analyzing the light from light bulbs when connected in series and parallel circuits. Ohm's Law and the equation for power dissipated by a circuit will be the primary equations used. Using...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Series Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Using diagrams, video clips, and informational text, students learn how electrical current flows through a series circuit.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Keep It Moving! From Electrons to Electric Motors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students act as engineers to apply what they know about how circuits work in electrical/motorized devices to design their own battery-operated model motor vehicles with specific paramaters. They calculate the work done by the vehicles...
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Online Course
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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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Series and Parallel Circuits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A teacher lesson plan which could be easily converted into an idea for a student project or presentation. Ideal for pre-high school learners. This page describes an activity in which the history of electric circuits, the nature of...
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Interactive
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Nasa Online: Circuits

For Students 5th - 8th
Learn the basics of electrical circuits and diagrams.
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Lesson Plan
SRI International

Performance Assessment Links in Science: Mystery Card 3

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Straightforward introduction to electrical circuits using minimal materials and time. Students learn about the basics of electrical circuits by experimenting with "mystery cards" -- index cards with hidden aluminum foil used to conduct...
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Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Conservation of Energy as a Fundamental Principle

For Students 9th - 10th
See how this principle translates in to fluids and the Bernoulli equation as well as into electric circuits and the voltage law and finally into heat and thermodynamics through the first law of thermodynamics.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers:electrical Messages

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Explore circuits and the flow of electricity by creating a communication device with a cell battery and electrical buzzer.
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Activity
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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