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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Solenoids

For Teachers 11th - 12th
This lesson discusses solenoids. Students learn how to calculate the magnetic field along the axis of a solenoid and complete an activity exploring the magnetic field of a metal slinky. Solenoids form the basis for the magnet of an MRI....
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Both Fields at Once?!

For Teachers 11th - 12th
This lesson discusses the result of a charge being subject to both electric and magnetic fields at the same time. It covers the Hall effect, velocity selector, and the charge to mass ratio. Given several sample problems, students learn...
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Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Magnetic Induction Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab was designed to have students test the things that can induce a current in a coil of wires. This lab is a purely quantitative lab.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: A Practical Application of Electro Magnetism

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson explains how an electric motor works.
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Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: The Em Spectrum: Waves of Energy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the electromagnetic spectrum through this group research activity. Each group investigates a different wavelength range within the em spectrum and reports back to class. Discussion ideas also included.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Right Hand Rule

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the convention for describing the direction of magnetic fields. Challenge questions are included.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Solenoid

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What a solenoid is and how to change the strength of its magnetic field, and some uses of solenoids.
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Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Davenport Motor 1834

For Students 9th - 10th
Odd though it seems today, when Thomas Davenport was selling one of the first electric motors way back in the 1830s, nobody was buying.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Two Sides of One Force

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn more about magnetism, and how magnetism and electricity are related in electromagnets. They learn the fundamentals about how simple electric motors and electromagnets work. Students also learn about hybrid...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Are You Picking Up What I'm Putting Down?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How are magnetism and electricity related? Learners will explore the relationship between magnetism and electricity, learn how to construct an electromagnet, and discover everyday uses of electromagnets. Students will create a multimedia...
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Curie Temperature

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this experiment, students experience the Curie point--and what happens when a piece of iron gets too hot to attract a magnet.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Yogurt Cup Speakers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson introduces students to the role of electricity and magnetism as they build a speaker. In addition, students explore properties of magnets, create an electromagnet, and determine the direction of a magnetic filed. They conduct...
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Article
Florida State University

Florida State University: Magnet Lab: What Is a Bus Room?

For Students 9th - 10th
The MagLab's bus tunnel has an aluminum track, but it doesn't carry passengers: it carries electricity, up to 56 megawatts of it.
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Handout
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Electric Generator Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An electromagnetic induction model that simulates an electric generator made from a conducting loop rotating in a uniform magnetic field and connected to an ammeter.
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Handout
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: E X B Trajectory Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Simulate the motion of a charged particle in electric and magnetic fields, and then complete the equations of motion using the Lorentz force law.
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Handout
University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: James Clerk Maxwell

For Students 9th - 10th
Research resources for James Maxwell (1831-1879), who did revolutionary work on electricity and magnetism and on the kinetic theory of gases.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Doorbell

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Understand how magnetic fields generated by solenoid coils can be used to create an operating doorbell using this interactive simulation. A PDF worksheet and a video tutorial are also available. [1:51]
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eBook
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Resources: Electromagnetic Field Theory

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level electrical engineering textbook starting from the Coulomb-Lorentz force law on a point charge. Sample problems that reinforce the content are found at the end of each chapter. Includes downloadable excerpts of the textbook...
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Modulated Coil

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you hear a magnet? In this activity you will be able to transfer the sound from your iPhone, iPod or radio to a cassette-tape player.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Galvanometer

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Understand how the magnetic field generated by loops of current-carrying wire is used to create measuring devices like voltmeters and ammeters with this interactive simulation. A PDF worksheet and a...
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Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Capacitor

For Students 9th - 10th
A capacitor is similar to a battery in that both store electrical energy. But a capacitor can't actually produce new electrons; it only stores them.
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Interactive
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Transformers

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this interactive, simple transformer to make a complete circuit via induction using two separate coils with iron cores inside.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Magnetic Suction

For Students 9th - 10th
An experiment to find out how an old-style doorbell works.
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Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Hans Christian Oersted

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how Hans Christian Oersted's discoveries in electricity led him to discover electromagnetism.