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Student Exploration: Circuit Builder
In this circuit builder learning exercise, students use the Circuit Builder Gizmo to answer 15 questions and complete charts about different kinds of circuits. Students will need to have access to the online Gizmo to complete the...
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Electricity And Magnetism
Learners explore the relationship between magnetism and electricity byby explaining how the model motor operates. They observe the the spinning of a coil of copper wire that is part of a circuit.
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Hidden Alarm
It's time! The fourth lesson in a five-part series has teams of scholars build a circuit for an alarm. A switch lets them turn the alarm on and off and allows them to hide the alarm—just as long as they don't hide it in the classroom!
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Engaging with Solar Panels
Build a fan and become a fan of solar power. The second of 14 lessons in the Cost Effective Solar Cells unit has learners first construct circuits with solar cells to power a fan, a motor, and an LED. They then test their circuits both...
Science Matters
Electricity and Magnetism Formative Assessment #2
Leave it to science to get scholars out of a jam. Young scientists use what they've learned about electricity and magnetism in the previous eight lessons in the series to build tools that will allow them to find their way out of the...
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Electricity
Give your science lesson a charge with this presentation on electricity. Each slide contains vocabulary or great information on what electricity is and how it works. Note: This resource would be even better if accompanied by a video and...
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Voltage/current converter opamp
In this physics learning exercise students complete several circuit building exercises then answer a series of short answer questions based on diagrams.
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Energy Conversion in Electricity – Resistors and Circuits
Students explore electrical energy. In this electricity lesson, students design and build a large circuit in order to determine whether circuit size correlates with the light of a bulb.
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What's a Resistor?
Students determine what a resistor does as they construct parallel circuits. In this circuitry instructional activity, students experiment with batteries, alligator clips, a resistor and a three-way switch to find out what a resistor...
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Liquid Conductors
Students identify liquids as conductors. In this circuits lesson, students build a circuit, then use various liquids to complete the circuit, and determine which liquids successfully conduct electricity.
Trash For Teaching
The Light-House Project
Groups work together to design a lighthouse, from designing and drawing the wiring diagram, to creating prototypes of the switch and circuit, to envisioning and building a scale model along with a blueprint. By including different...
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Resonance
In this electrical instructional activity, students draw a schematic design and build a circuit board capable of producing a wide range of audio-frequency AC signals before answering a series of 26 open-ended questions. This...
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Counters
Within this electrical circuit worksheet, students design and build a circuit board to understand counters. Students will answer a series of 24 open-ended questions that include analyzing schematics. This worksheet is printable and the...
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Shift Registers
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding of shift resister circuit design before answering a series of 22 open-ended questions with schematics. This worksheet is printable...
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Stepper motors
In this circuit lesson students build different circuits then complete a series of short answer questions on different diagrams.
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Memory Devices
For this electrical worksheet, students design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding of various electronic memory devices before answering a series of 18 open-ended questions that include analyzing schematics. This ...
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Inductive Reactance
In this electrical circuit worksheet, learners draw a schematic design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding of inductive reactance before answering a series of 13 open-ended questions. This worksheet is printable and the...
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PN Junctions
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding PN junctions in circuit designs before answering a series of 19 open-ended questions with schematics. This worksheet is printable...
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Special Diodes
In this electrical circuit instructional activity, students draw a schematic design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding of diodes. Students answer a series of 8 open-ended questions. This instructional activity is...
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Regulated Power Sources
In this electrical circuit instructional activity, students design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding of power sources and answering a series of 28 open-ended questions with schematics. This instructional activity is...
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Insulate Gate Field-Effect Transistors
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students draw a schematic design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding of insulated gate field effect transistors before answering a series of 39 open-ended questions that include...
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IGFET amplifiers
In this electronics worksheet, students draw a schematic design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding of IGFET amplifiers before answering a series of 2 open-ended questions with schematics. This worksheet is printable and...
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Multi-stage Transistor Amplifiers
In this electrical worksheet, students design and build a circuit board using diodes, transistors, and dry cell batteries, to grasp the understanding of circuit design before answering a series of 15 open-ended questions that include...
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Active Filters
In this electrical worksheet, 1st graders design and build a circuit model to grasp the understanding of filters in circuits pertaining to impedance and cut-off frequency. They answer a series of 31 open-ended questions that include...