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...

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...

Students investigate how to find the density of fluids and solids using math. Students also learn how to find the density of regular and irregular shaped objects.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes what electric charge and electric force are and the electric forces between charged particles.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this lesson, students learn about electric charges, and how the law of charges determines whether charges repel or attract each other. They will also learn how...

Learning about charge and forces of attraction will be keys to understanding electrostatics and the basis of this learning unit. Developing a greater understanding of charge and the charge model is necessary to understanding electricity.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses electric charge and electric force, and identifies ways that electric charge is transferred.

This lesson focuses on electric charges. Electric current is the flow of electric charge. Some insulating materials become electrically charged when they are rubbed together. A substance that gains electrons becomes negatively charged,...

This interactive tutorial teaches students about he reasons for why charge flows through wires of electric circuits and the variables that affect the rate at which it flows. Students can take the interactive quiz to assess what they have...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses electric charge and electric force, and identifies ways that electric charge is transferred.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson examines how moving electric charges are affected when inside a magnetic field. Students are shown how to calculate the force on a single moving electric...

Learners investigate electric forces. Some topics examined are conductors, Coulomb?s law, and net electrical charge. The resource includes example problems with solutions and a chapter quiz.

This lesson focuses on static electricity, including how particles can be charged by friction, and electrical forces and why they repel or attract each other. Includes a link to a test.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn which subatomic particles contribute to static electricity, and determine the charge of an object based on what particles it has gained or lost.

This online tutorial teaches students about the nature of the electric force. In this part of Lesson 1, two simple and fundamental statements will be made and explained about the nature of the electric force.

Explore what an electric field is and how electric fields interact with this module. Module includes a video, interactive activity, and review questions.

Electrical force between two electrically charged objects is inversely related to the distance between the two objects. Investigate why this becomes the inverse square law of physics. Engage in the Coulomb's Law interactive and check...

In this unit students take a deeper look into charges beyond the simplified 'opposites attract." Students learn to calculate those attractive and repulsive forces and to show how invisible fields are responsible for them.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate how electric force, charge, and distance all relate to each other in Coulomb's Law. Presents Coulomb's Law, the SI unit for charge, the...

Exploration of models of electric field to explain how charged objects interact with other objects via simulations, practice and activities. Sponsored by Concord Consortium and the CREATE for STEM Institute at Michigan State University.

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb invented a device, dubbed the torsion balance, that allowed him to measure very small charges and experimentally estimate the force of attraction or repulsion between two charged bodies. The data he obtained...

Being able to control the movement of electrons is fundamental for making all electronic devices work. Discover how electric and magnetic fields can be used to move electrons around. Begin by exploring the relationship between electric...

Learn about Priestley's Electrostatic Machine. There are links that tell about the machine and Priestley himself. There are also resources for teachers and students, including lesson plans and activities.

Activity 2 of this module explains How do factors like distance and amount of charge affect interactions between objects? The activity investigates the effect that the distance between two charged objects has on the strength of the...