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Wire Types and Sizes

For Students 10th - 12th
In this wires instructional activity, students answer 16 questions about types of electrical wires, their gauge or sizes, the ampacity of wires and conduit.
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What Is Electricity?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate vocabulary words associated with electricity.  In this electrical instructional activity, students utilize the Internet to research what electricity is and how it works.  Students create an actual circuit in class...
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Electricity

For Teachers 1st
First graders become aware of the presence of static electricity. They create static electricity using friction.
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Safety

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the concept of voltage and electricity. They differentiate between an insulator and a conductor in the context of using electrical safety with the help of a doll house. Then students pretend the doll lives in a real...
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Study Stack

Earth Science Crossword Puzzle

For Students 5th - 8th
In this online interactive anatomy crossword puzzle worksheet, students use the 8 clues to find the appropriate answers to complete the word puzzle.
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Electricity

For Teachers 8th
The presentation begins with a circuit building activity and two data tables for young scientists to copy and complete. Full of clever animations, it will definitely spark student interest! However, the information is incoherent. You may...
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Chalkboard Challenge: The Periodic Table and Periodicity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In a well-prepared Jeopardy-style game, your chemisty class can review the periodic table. Questions cover the element groups, some history, atomic number, atomic and ionic radii, electronegativity, and the shielding effect. What a fun...
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Polar Trec

Staying Warm in Antarctica!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Has your class ever wondered how animals and scientists stay warm in the Polar Regions? Kids will investigate to understand the three types of heat transfer and how heat transfer affects those trying to stay toasty in sub-zero...
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Fourth Grade Science

For Students 4th
In this science worksheet, 4th graders complete multiple choice questions about electricity, the sun, sound, and more. Students complete 25 questions.
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Rochester Institute of Technology

Electrical Energy

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
My friend told me how electricity is measured and I was like Watt! In the hands-on activity, learners explore electricity by building circuits, both parallel and series. They also determine how increasing the number of light bulbs and...
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Electrical Principals and Wiring Materials

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Train a budding electrician about the principles of electricity and the wiring materials needed to complete the job. Briefly covered are basic electrical concepts such as, volts, watts, circuits, and safety. Also covered are the...
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Capacitors: What Are They?

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Learners discover how capacitors help store data.  In this computer science activity, students investigate how capacitors can store an electronic charge, eventually helping computers store data.  Learners create their own capacitors with...
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Simple Circuit: Electric Currents and Circuits

For Teachers 4th
Through inquiry and exploration, 4th graders will learn and understand the functions of open and closed circuits. They will break into 2 groups, define vocabulary, hypothesize how to light a bulb, then test their hypothesis 4 different...
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Batesville Community School Corporation

Electrostatics Presentation

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed Standards
Energize young scientists with this introductory presentation on the electromagnetic force. From learning about basic topics like protons and electrons, to more in-depth concepts like Coulomb's law and electric dipoles, physics students...
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Electricity and Electrical Circuits

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students are introduced to electricity and electrical circuits. In groups, they draw circuit diagrams, complete a KWL chart and discover the difference between open, closed and series circuits. They define new vocabulary and make...
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Van der Graaf

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Four demonstrations with the Van der Graaf generator are delineated for you to share with your science classes. Instructions, explanations, and safety precautions are included. However, a background explanation of the static electricity...
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Lesson Plan
Discovery of Sound in the Sea

How to Build a Hydrophone

For Teachers 7th - 12th
The materials and procedures for building a hydrophone, an underwater sound collecting device, are provided in this resource. Have high school oceanographers construct the underwater microphone to pick up sound waves. Then take them out...
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How Lightening Works

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Annotated diagrams explain the distribution of charged particles in clouds that can lead to lightening bolts. This is a super short slide show but it is useful for explaining the phenomenon and safety mechanisms.
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A Simple Motor

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Instructions for building a simple electromagnetic motor are provided for the teacher. Aside from some sketchy background information and a list of content standards to be met, that is about all you will find in this resource. The motor...
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Static Electricity

For Students 5th - 10th
In this electricity worksheet, students read about static and current electricity and then draw pictures of an electric cell and circuits. Students draw 3 pictures total.
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Elementary Concepts in Heat

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read a thermometer with accuracy, record observations and data, and infer conceptual meaning. They integrate mathematical charting and graphing skills to organize their data. They explore what happens when they touch or use...
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Atmospheric Processes - Conduction

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners explain the process of conduction using a molecular explanation, and explain how different materials conduct at different rates.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Mission 3: Electrical Safety

For Students 3rd - 4th
In these recognizing electrical safety in the kitchen, bathroom, living room, outdoors, and in a storm worksheets, students read for information, identify electrical appliances, types of light switches, list possible dangers for each...
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Heat and Matter

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore liquids and solids by conducting in class experiments. In this matter lesson, students define the properties of matter and how heat can change those properties. Students experiment with heating objects such as butter and...

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