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.

Lesson investigates electronic communication from the Morse Code system to text messaging. To learn about this, students construct simple circuits, send messages to each other, and explore the history and impact of communication.

Students work in teams to explore how a flashlight works. This activity examines the topics of batteries, electron flow, circuit systems, switches, and bulbs.

Lesson focuses on how switches control the flow of electricity. Students are posed with the challenge of designing and building a simple switch into an electric circuit.

Help Frankenstein find out about electrical safety by clicking on the haunted house characters to find out what they are doing wrong.

This site is an introduction plus a series of three lesson plans that explore Franklin's portraits plus aspects of his work in science and writing.

Wikipedia offers detailed information on electrical current, including many hyperlinked related terms.

This online textbook chapter provides learners with advanced-level material on electrochemistry.

This animation discusses light and the properties of electricity in a storybook format. The theme of the story is that a family lost their power, so the animations discuss power and electricity and how it travels into homes.

At this site from California Energy Commission, you can learn more about electricity safety with this coloring book. Teach children how to use electricity safely.

This site offers a wealth of online textbook-related materials that encourage the discovery of science in the world around us. Enter the site to access material on specific topics. Each section contains reading material (complete with...

Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining charges and electricity. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along...

This PBS site provides a background of how the post-World War 1 US economy exploded with the advent of new electrical appliances. Offers additional links.

One-page profile of influential innovator, George Westinghouse, Jr., whose vision and ideas helped to increase the safety of the railroad system in America. His experimentation with electricity also had a huge impact on the power...

Spanish-language site lets students discover the life and work of this physicist and engineer, who is known for his studies of electric charges.

This British-born businessman made cheap public utilities a reality for Americans, bringing them electricity and an improved quality of life.

Students explore how various energy sources can be used to cause a turbine to rotate and then generate electricity with a magnet.

The nature of insulators is described at the atomic level. Band gap theory is used to explain what distinguishes insulators from conductors.

University of Delaware Physics Department provides this indexing page for a slide show presentation.

The University of Delaware Physics Department provides this site from a site titled "Silicon, Circuits, and the Digital Revolution," here is a series of four pages which explain the details behind how semiconductors work. An introduction...

This site discusses in detail the impact modern appliances had on the 1920s American household. Technology produced more opportunities within the household. Provides information about the benefits of electricity.

Everything you need to know about how Leyden jars work, and how to construct your own. Many pictures, references, other sites, other electrostatics projects and topics.

Looking for some more explanantion on a topic covered in physics class? This site contains videos that explore some physics concepts. Videos are broken down by topics. Some videos also give examples on how to solve problems.

Learn about lightning formation and lightning safety with this detailed webpage.