In this unit students discover the meaning and some applications of electric potential, commonly known as voltage, and how it powers some simple circuits.

After analyzing examples of conductors and insulators, 5th graders will work in small groups to craft a dance that depicts an electrical current and how it is affected by a conductor or insulator. Students will present their dances to...

Learn about conductors and electric fields in static equilibrium.

Learners investigate electrostatics with conductors. Some topics explored in the activities are electric shielding, conductors, and charging by induction. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, online textbook chapters,...

If you want to understand electricity, you first need to know a little about matter, atoms and electrons.

Help Frankenstein find out about electrical safety by clicking on the haunted house characters to find out what they are doing wrong.

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.

For this activity, students will understand that electricity moves through different circuits and discover what types of materials are conductors and insulators.

Brush up on electricity facts before taking this interactive quiz. Students can get immediate feedback by checking the answers after each question.

Through a series of self-guided activities, students will explore basic electrical circuits and then build a working model of a circuit through the process of wiring a lamp. They will understand the flow of electrons through a circuit,...

In this interactive tutorial students will find out why the electric field inside a conductor is zero. They can learn to read maps of equipotential surfaces surrounding charged conductors and map electric field lines from those...

Here is the site to help you learn all about magnetism and magnets! Find out what a magnet is and how it works. Click for additional details on charges, conductors, magnetic fields, currents, resistance as well as the Laws of Faraday and...

Learners gain an understanding of the difference between electrical conductors and insulators, and experience recognizing a conductor by its material properties. In a hands-on activity, students build a conductivity tester to determine...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Thermal conductors and insulators and the ways they are used.

Explore current electricity and different types of electric circuits.

An explanation of diodes as they relate to semi conductor devices.

Discover what materials make good conductors and insulators.

Create your own simple electric circuit. Using simple supplies build your own battery and investigate conductivity. You can also construct a crossword puzzle with electrical vocabulary words.

Visit Vlad and learn about the properties of conductors and insulators, and what materials are used for them.

In this investigation the students predict, experiment, and observe whether materials are insulators or conductors.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Defines electric current and relates electric current to different materials (insulators and conductors).

This review from the Glenbrook South High School provides a series of questions on various topics associated with static electricity (such as electrical insulation). Answers and explanations are hidden, yet easily accessed from within a...

Kid's learn about the basic science of electricity. What is it and how it works.

A series of pages which define key terms and explain basic concepts related to electric potential. Includes a set of practice problems with answers and solutions.