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Flowing Electrons
Students act out different types of circuits, and create their own circuits using wire, a bulb, a battery and a switch.
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Watts Up with the Heat
Students create a variety of simple, series and parallel electrical circuits to illustrate how electricity flows through different types of basic circuits.
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Simple Circuits
Students investigate how series and parallel circuits work. In this physics lesson, students build their own simple circuits and compare their characteristics. They explain the importance of circuit breakers in household circuits.
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Home Electrical Safety
Students explain the danger of incorrectly wired plugs. In this physics instructional activity, students construct their own safe plug. They share the finished project in class.
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Electrical Symbols - Making Circuits from Circuit Diagrams
Young scholars draw different electrical circuit symbols. In this electricity lesson, students construct simple circuits based on circuit diagrams. They share their findings to class.
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Batteries and Bulbs
Learners examine the uses of batteries and bulbs and explain the differences between series and parallel circuits. In this circuits instructional activity students complete a lab activity.
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Circuit Symbols
In this electrical circuits worksheet, students study 10 diagrams of circuit parts and vocabulary words. These diagrams involve switches and batteries.
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Batteries
In these batteries worksheets, students read several passages about the components of batteries. Kids then fill in the missing words for the 4 sentences about batteries. Students color the pictures that each battery would be used for.
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Mission 2: Electricity
In these electricity worksheets, learners learn about electricity, how its used, how it can be changes, and electricity circuits. Students complete an 11 page packet about electricity.
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Hear The Light?
Learners investigate a circuit and build a flashlight transmitter. In this electricity lesson, students are introduced to the parts of the modulated laser and define the purpose of each part. As an assessment, learners construct a...
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Kirchhoff's Laws: DC Circuits with Capacitors
In this circuits learning exercise, students calculate the charge on the capacitor based on the circuit drawing given. This learning exercise has 11 problems to solve.
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Circuits and Conductors
In this electricity worksheet, students study the diagram of the circuits and conductors. Students write how bright each bulb glows.
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Magnets
In this magnets worksheet, high schoolers describe the differences between a generator and a motor, define electromagnet, and identify a circuit as parallel or series. This worksheet has 2 short answer questions, 5 fill in the blank and...
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Circuit City
Fifth graders are introduced to the concept of circuits and how electricity works. In groups, they design their own subdivision with houses in which they have inside and outside light sources. To end the lesson, they make the circuits...
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Design and Technology - Pneumatics
High schoolers engage in a lesson that is about constructing an airbleed circuit while suggesting practical applications for the circuit after conducting some research. To help in the construction students watch a video to watch an example.
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Electrical Circuits And Switches
Young scholars design and draw circuits with batteries, small light bulbs and common household conductors. They build and test the circuit then modify it so someone who couldn't use their hands could turn the circuit on and off.
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Circuits And Conductors
Students predict the common classroom items, such as paper clips, chalk, keys, or erasers, that will be good conductors in a circuit. They build circuits using a variety of circuit diagrams to test their predictions.
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Basic Electric Circuits
Students calculate the resistance across a bank of resistors in a series, parallel and combined circuit. Using new vocabulary words, they define and describe them in a scientific manner. After stating Ohm's Law, they solve electrical...
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Electric Current and Circuits
Students view a basic circuit in operation and discuss what is happening behind the scenes. Using a worksheet with common electrical symbols, they diagram several setups of series circuits and discuss the flow of electrons. They solve...
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Circuit Boards
Students explore circuit boards. They determine that a complete circuit is needed to light the bulbs, experiment with the boards to develop strategies for finding where the hidden connections are, and develop strategies that can be used...
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Map Field of Current
Students determine that moving charges create a magnetic field. They discover that the speed and direction of motion, the amount of charge, and the deflection angle observed are closely linked. A voltmeter, pendulum, and a constructed...
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Batteries in Series: Voltage and Light Intensity
Students participate in a hands-on activity to explore the relationship between the number of batteries in a series circuit and its voltage. Students identify the relationship between two variables and plot points on a graph.
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Lights On!
Students work together to build their own simple circuits. They discover how electricity is conducted through light bulbs. They compare and contrast the differences beween a parallel and series circuit.
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Using Transistors: Let's Get Transistorized!
Students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. This activity allow them to observe the operation of a transistor as an amplifier.