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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Marquee Lights

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about different ways you can wire an electric circuit, and how the brightness of the lights depends on how they are configured using this interactive simulation. A PDF worksheet and a video...
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Electricity and Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
This article helps students understand the concepts of electricity and circuits.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Short Circuit

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how fuses and circuit breakers work to stop the flow of electricity in a circuit so as to prevent fires. This experiment requires caution.
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Activity
Concord Consortium

Mobile Inquiry Technology: Parallel Versus Series Circuits

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this lesson, students actively investigate the differences between parallel and series circuits and how the brightness of bulbs is affected.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Electrons on the Move

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about current electricity and necessary conditions for the existence of an electric current. Students construct a simple electric circuit and a galvanic cell to help them understand voltage, current and resistance.
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Handout
Florida State University

Florida State University: Molecular Expressions: Magnetic Fields and Compass Orientation

For Students 9th - 10th
Simulate the creation of an induced magnetic field through the use of a simple electric circuit. An interactive demonstration is included.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Wired for Learning

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
As part of a unit on electrical circuits, students will work in collaborative groups to create a video of how to construct parallel and series circuits. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science...
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Why Do Citrus Fruits Conduct Electricity?

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover what it is about citrus fruits that enable them to conduct electricity, then make your own citrus fruit battery using the instructions given here.
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Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Current Flow

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial illustrates how the flow of water through a system of pipes can be used to understand the flow of current through an electric circuit.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Circuit Elements of a Simple Defibrillator

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a five-question quiz related to circuit elements of a simple defibrillator.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Capacitance and Inductance

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about capacitors and inductors and their role in electrical circuits.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Calculations From Circuit Diagrams

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice calculating potential difference, resistance, and current for a component from a circuit diagram.
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Electricity (Intermediate)

For Students 5th - 7th
Explore how electricity works in this module. (Requires Java)
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Current Electricity

For Students 9th - 10th
Four complete lessons on current electricity in the study of physics. Lessons include informational text, interactive activities, animations, and quick, interactive comprehension checks.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Electrical Engineering: Circuit Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Circuit analysis is the process of finding all the currents and voltages in a network of connected components. We look at the basic elements used to build circuits, and find out what happens when elements are connected together into a...
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics: Electrical Systems Study Guide

For Students 6th - 9th
A study guide covering electrical systems.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Electric Safety

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of electric safety: short circuits, electric safety features, and how to use electricity safely.
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the advanced analog integrated circuits. Webpage includes twenty-seven lectures from a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Lectures vary in length and...
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Dc Circuits: Parallel Resistances (Sparks 2)

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore circuits with resistors in parallel and answer questions regarding voltage drops across resistors and currents through them in such circuits.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Advanced Circuit Analysis

For Students 11th - 12th
Practice analyzing circuits using Kirchhoff's laws and Ohm's law with series and parallel resistors.
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Interactive
South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
This colorful site will help you understand series and parallel circuits.
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Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Ac Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
A very comprehensive site organized well with many topics dealing with AC circuits.
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Handout
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Rlc Circuit Function Generator

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An electrical circuit simulation modeling a resistor, capacitor, and inductor in a series. Vary the resistance, capacitance, inductance and source frequency in the simulation.
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Graphic
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Understanding Electricity | Nasa Online

For Students 3rd - 5th
If you want to understand electricity, you first need to know a little about matter, atoms and electrons.

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