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Columbus City Schools

It’s Electric!

For Teachers 7th Standards
Shocking! Who knew so many great ideas existed for teaching middle schoolers about electricity? Find them all within this energetic framework. You'll light up at the variety of printable and web-based resources within! After building...
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Curated OER

Basic Electric Circuits

For Teachers 11th - 12th
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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Curated OER

Introduction to Electricity

For Teachers 1st
Students experiment with static electricity and make their own electrical circuits. Students experiment with their circuits to explore conductors and insulators. Students identify Thomas Edison as the person who invented the electric bulb.
Unit Plan
Columbus City Schools

Force Field Physics

For Teachers 8th Standards
Attracted class members to an activity-packed journey through the science behind the invisible forces at work all around us. From jump rope generators to junkyard wars, there's never a dull moment when eighth grade physics scholars...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Put a Spark in It! Electricity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Uncountable times every day "with the merest flick of a finger"each one of us calls on electricity to do our bidding. What would your life be like without electricity? Students begin learning about electricity with an introduction to the...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Simple Electrical Cell

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a Java tutorial showing the simple voltaic (or galvanic) electrical cell, which is the most basic type of "wet" cell and demonstrates the fundamental chemistry behind batteries.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Electric Current and Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
Students have the opportunity to explore the basics of current and circuits in this online module. Some of the activities include interactive animations, informational text, practice problems, and lab experiments.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Magnetism and Electromagnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive learning module, students learn about the basic properties of magnetism. Practice problems are provided for ongoing assessment.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Efficient Housing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
We all know that it takes energy to provide us with the basics of shelter: heating, cooling, lighting, electricity, sanitation and cooking. To create energy-efficient housing that is practical for people to use every day requires...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Electrostatics

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text, interactive activities, practice problems, and virtual simulations, students learn about the basic properties of electricity in this unit.
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Mri Safety Grand Challenge

For Teachers 11th - 12th
This module was written for a first year accelerated or AP physics class. It is intended to provide hands on activities to teach end of the year electricity and magnetism topics including the magnetic force, magnetic moments and torque,...
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PBS

Pbs: Count on It!: Episode 207 Blossom and Snappy Learn About Utilities

For Students K - 1st Standards
Blossom and Snappy help Robbie prepare for a dinner party. They make a decorative centerpiece out of postage stamps. In order to help Robbie, they decide to pay her bills for her. In doing this, Blossom and Snappy visit and learn about...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Dams

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Through eight lessons, students are introduced to many facets of dams, including their basic components, the common types (all designed to resist strong forces), their primary benefits (electricity generation, water supply, flood...
Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Oil Drop

For Students 9th - 10th
It may look like a simple black blob, but an oil drop is in fact a phenomenally complex mix of immense molecules called hydrocarbons. Using a type of mass spectrometry called FT-ICR, scientists can analyze oil and other macromolecules...
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PBS

Pbs: How Do Solar Panels Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
We've seen them for years on rooftops, atop highway warning signs, and elsewhere, but how many of us know how solar panels actually work? How do the photovoltaic cells that lie at the heart of them turn sunlight ("photo") into...

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