Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Calculating Current in Series Parallel Circuits
Use resistance formulas to determine the total resistances of the series and parallel parts. Then, use Ohm's Law to calculate the voltage drops across and currents through each part.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Potato Power
Students use potatoes to light an LED clock (or light bulb) as they learn how a battery works in a simple circuit and how chemical energy changes to electrical energy. As they learn more about electrical energy, they better understand...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Can You Resist This?
This lab demonstrates Ohm's law as students set up simple circuits each composed of a battery, lamp and resistor. Students calculate the current flowing through the circuits they create by solving linear equations. After solving for the...
PBS
Pbs Kids:activities and Videos: Electricity
This PBS site offers videos and activities are hands-on challenges that focus on the engineering design process. They use simple materials, allow for multiple solutions, and are ideal for ages 9-12.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Ph Et Simulations: Replace Real Equipment in Lab Circuit Construction Kit
Students explore with a PhET interactive simulation to replicate the construction of electrical circuits.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Flowing Electrons
For this fifth grade activity, students explore electric circuits by acting out different types, then construct circuits themselves.
Physics4kids
Physics4 Kids: Electricity and Magnetism: Current
Explains electric current, how it produces heat, and the difference between a direct current and an alternating current.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Difference Between Alternating and Direct Current
Explains what alternating current and direct current are and what they are used for.
Other
Electricity: Simple Circuits
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.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Current Electricity: Electrical Resistance: Ohm's Law
There are certain formulas in physics that are so powerful and so pervasive that they reach the state of popular knowledge. The predominant equation which pervades the study of electric circuits is often referred to as the Ohm's law...
Boston University
Elementary Physics: Current and Resistance
A general summary of electrical resistance including a comparison of AC and DC current.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Introduction to Electric Circuits
This activity will show how to properly connect wires to make a closed electric circuit. Included in this will be how to connect batteries in series and/or in parallel, and how to properly measure potential drops across a resistor and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Controlling Current Overload in Electric Circuits
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Electrical circuits have safety features like fuses and circuit breakers to prevent an overload, which could cause a fire. This lesson explains how these work....
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Voltage
Electrical currents and voltage are defined and illustrated.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Current Electricity Lights On
An exploratory lesson that provides the learners with a chance to discover the possible connections in an electrical circuit in a controlled setting.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Electron Current Flow
A teacher lesson plan which could be easily converted into an idea for a student project or presentation. This page describes an activity in which the water-electricity analogy is used to investigate the relationship between current,...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Comparing Current Intensities of Series, Parallel, and Complex Circuits
Students will investigate the differences of current in series, parallel, and complex circuits through the construction of a small house containing the different types of circuits.
Project Britain
Primary Homework Help: Electricity Questions
Brush up on electricity facts before taking this interactive quiz. Students can get immediate feedback by checking the answers after each question.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: William Crookes
English scientist William Crookes was very innovative in his investigations with vacuum tubes and designed a variety of different types to be used in his experimental work. Crookes tubes are glass vacuum chambers that contain a positive...
Museum of Science
The Atom's Family: Fruity Electricity
Frankenstein's electricity is out. In this activity, students help him find another source of energy using citrus fruit. Good for students who want to do their own projects or for class lessons.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: Electricity and Magnetism
Students learn about static electricity using terms such as friction, induction, and conduction. They also explain and illustrate the difference between alternating and direct current, and understand the relationship among voltage,...
Physics4kids
Physics4kids: Electricity and Magnetism: Magnets
Here is the site to help you learn all about magnetism and magnets! Find out what a magnet is and how it works. Click for additional details on charges, conductors, magnetic fields, currents, resistance as well as the Laws of Faraday and...
Upper Canada District School Board
Tom Stretton's Chemistry Pages: Electric Circuits
Learn the voltage formula for determining a measure of current electricity in this illustrated presentation.
Hunkins Experiments
Hunkin's Experiments: Electric Shocks!!
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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