Students can use this resource to research energy facts and play online games and activities. There are also lesson plans and activities for the classroom.

The Applied Science resource consists of practical activities that demonstrate the importance of standard procedures in scientific work. Students examine electrical properties through a variety of activities. Some topics investigated are...

The National Physical Laboratory, which is the UK's National Measurement Institute, offers a Beginner's Guide to Measurements in Electronics and Electrical Engineering. Discusses how electric currents are measured and offers images.

This site from California Energy Commission provides six different games about energy in which you may play by yourself or against an opponent to answer trivia questions.

Using an online exhibition, investigate how Mary Shelley's horror science fiction story, Frankenstein, reflects the knowledge and studies of electricity, and how those fictional ideas are used in modern medicine.

From The Scots Guide to Electronics web site. The meaning of electric potential is described. A combination of diagrams and words are used to explain this difficult concept without the use of mathematics. Very well done!

A superb explanation of how a battery works. Discusses the associated chemistry which explains how a battery produces a voltage. Includes a series of "Confidence Building Questions."

Learn how electricity flows through a circuit by watching how the electrons move.

The California Energy Commission explains the history of Daylight Saving Time and why we "spring forward, fall back." There is lots of trivia included about time, a chart giving the start and end dates through 2015, and links to much...

This page offers three fill-in-the-blank puzzles using a wordlist of 36 words pertaining to Physics: Electricity. It also provides a Vocabulary Word List for Electricity (200).

This page offers three fill-in-the-blank vocabulary puzzles using a bank of 36 words on the topic of Physics: Electricity. It also provides an extensive electricity word list and also lists by levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced.

A brief biography from the company that bears his name. George Westinghouse was a prolific inventor, and this biography recounts his many inventions, beginning with the air brake which greatly increased safety on the railroads.

Find a review of many aspects of the physical world. Simple explanations of electricity, gravity, and the solar system. Included are materials for teachers to use for enrichment.

Two scientists share the credit for discovering, and then interpreting, the phenomenon of electromagnetism.

The MagLab's bus tunnel has an aluminum track, but it doesn't carry passengers: it carries electricity, up to 56 megawatts of it.

Alternating current behaves differently, depending on what components are in a circuit.

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.

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.

Electric motors turn electricity into motion by exploiting electromagnetic induction.

This "magneto-electric machine" was the first to turn motion into electricity. (Java tutorial)

Recreate the discovery by Hans Christian Oersted about the relationship between electricity and magnetism in this very simple experiment.

This circuit is most commonly used to determine the value of an unknown resistance to an electrical current.

Electricity goes through some ups and downs on its way from the power plant to your house. See how it works in this interactive activity.

Compasses had been steering people in the right direction for many centuries when, in the year 1820, one particular compass made a very different sort of revelation to an unsuspecting Danish science professor.