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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Grid

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
The class forms a "Presidential Task Force" for a week, empowered by the president to find answers and make recommendations concerning the future of the national power grid. Task force members conduct daily debriefings with their...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chemical Bonding: Metallic Bonds

For Students 9th - 10th
Given scenarios or diagrams, students will describe the nature of metallic bonding and explain properties such as thermal and electrical conductivity, malleability, and ductility of metals.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Renewable Energy Living Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students become familiar with the online Renewable Energy Living Lab interface and access its real-world solar energy data to evaluate the potential for solar generation in various U.S. locations. They become familiar with where the most...
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Charge and Carry

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Exploratorium Museum is a full description of a short activity. An electrophorus plate and a Leyden jar are made. The electrophorus is charged by induction. Its charge is transferred to the Leyden jar by conduction...
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Other

Lcs: Experiments on the Electrolysis of Sodium Chloride

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete directions several methods of conducting the electrolysis of sodium chloride solution. Helpful tips, discussion and a diagram of the apparatus and set-up is provided. Easily adaptable as a student lab or project.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Science World: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics: Electrical Conduction

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief definition for what electrical conduction is. Also provides the definition for related terms.
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Curated OER

Physics4 kids.com: Electricity Conduction

For Students 3rd - 8th
Illustration showing how the space between atoms in a material affects the production of heat when an electric current passes through it.
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eBook
Other

Characteristics of Energy and Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
A lengthy page from the Fundamentals of Physical Geography site. Energy is distinguished from matter, and the different forms of energy are identified and discussed. Four types of heat transfer (convection, advection, conduction,...
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Lesson Plan
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Ornl: Teacher's Guide Superconductivity for High School Students

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site from the Human Genome Project provides a large collection of facts and information, demonstrations, experiments and project ideas. Written for teachers but easily adaptable for any type of student work. A good site to check out...
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Handout
University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: Insulators

For Students 9th - 10th
The nature of insulators is described at the atomic level. Band gap theory is used to explain what distinguishes insulators from conductors.
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Handout
University of California

University of California: Seawater Density & Salinity [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the properties of seawater and the variations depending on its location, e.g., near a shoreline, in an estuary, or as sea ice. Discusses the instruments scientists use to measure the density of water and explains other...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Yogurt Cup Speakers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson introduces students to the role of electricity and magnetism as they build a speaker. In addition, students explore properties of magnets, create an electromagnet, and determine the direction of a magnetic filed. They conduct...
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Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Resistance

For Students 9th - 10th
An electron traveling through the wires and loads of the external circuit encounters resistance. In this tutorial, the concept of resistance is introduced. For an electron, the journey from terminal to terminal is not a direct route....
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Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Wave Interference

For Students 9th - 10th
Conduct virtual experiments with water, sound, and light waves to determine the sine wave and patterns created in each.
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Handout
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Faraday Disk Dynamo Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This simulation demonstrates a rotating conducting disk in a magnetic field which produces a current or a self-exciting dynamo.
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Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Induced Current

For Students 9th - 10th
A current can be induced in a conducting loop if it is exposed to a changing magnetic field. (Java tutorial)
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eBook
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Resources: Electromagnetic Field Theory

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level electrical engineering textbook starting from the Coulomb-Lorentz force law on a point charge. Sample problems that reinforce the content are found at the end of each chapter. Includes downloadable excerpts of the textbook...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Resistivity

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The factors that affect resistivity are explained, e.g., wire gauge and length, and conductivity. Also touches upon semiconductors and superconductors. The use of...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating How to Create a Stronger Electromagnet

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan, students will investigate what they can do to produce a stronger electromagnet. Students will use the scientific thinking process to conduct investigations and build explanations. They will present their discoveries...
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Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Duchenne Machine 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
French physician Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne invented a device that electrically stimulates muscles. The apparatus gave him new insight into neuromuscular disorders, earned him the epitaph of "father of electrotherapeutics," and...
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PPT
Other

University of Delaware Physics Department: Lithography

For Students 9th - 10th
University of Delaware Physics Department provides this indexing page for a slide show presentation.
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Other

Univ. Of Delaware Physics: More Semiconductor Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Electrostatics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A teacher lesson plan which includes activities pertaining to common methods of charging objects - induction, conduction, and friction.
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Handout
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Metals, Insulators and Semiconductors

For Students 9th - 10th
Acting as an overview from the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site explores insulators in relation to metals and other semiconductors. Other topics include conduction band, dielectric breakdown, photoconductors, and more.