Lesson Plan

Three Ways to Generate Electricity

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Get your hands on electricity. Pupils investigate magnetic fields and make the connection to generators in the fourth lesson in a series of six lessons on wind versus solar energy. Learners use a small electric motor as a generator to create enough electricity to light a bulb. They then replace the electric motor with a photoelectric cell to demonstrate another way of generating electricity.

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CCSS: Designed
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Instructional Ideas
  • Research how energy is generated locally
Classroom Considerations
  • Requires several materials for each group
  • Uses a multimeter to find voltage
Pros
  • Contains links to videos to help with how the activities should work
  • Includes a list of key vocabulary
Cons
  • None
Common Core