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Applied Science - Physics Lab

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students investigate electricity. In this Physics lesson plan, students experiment with insulators and conductors of electricity. Students use batteries as the energy source for the experiment.
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Overcurrent Protection

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this electrical worksheet, students answer a series of 13 open-ended questions with schematics about excessive electrical current going through conductors. This worksheet is printable and there are on-line answers to the questions.
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To Resist Or Not To Resist

For Students 7th - 12th
In this electric circuits activity, students will read about Georg Ohm and Ohm's law. Then students will complete 4 short answer questions.
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Applied Science - Physics Pre-Lab

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students view a static electricity demonstration. In this Physics lesson, students compare static and current electricity. Students watch an electricity slide show and sing the Electricity song.
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Applied Science -Physics (4A) Post Lab

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the history of electricity. In this electricity lesson, 4th graders review the connection between electricity and magnetism. They do a research project on the history of electricity. 
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Applied Science - Physics (K) Post Lab

For Teachers K
Students are introduced to electricity. For this electricity lesson, students listen to the book Switch on, Switch off  by Melvin Berger and discuss the use of electricity in light switches. They create a picture of an atom using...
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Circuits and Symbols

For Students 9th - 12th
For this circuits worksheet, students read how electricity flows through circuits and learn how to draw a circuit diagram. Students then complete 16 matching, 2 multiple choice, 14 fill in the blank, and 3 short answer questions.
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AC Motor Theory

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students answer a series of 20 open-ended questions about AC motor circuits.  This worksheet is printable and the answers are revealed online.
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AC Motor Control Circuits

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this electrical worksheet, students answer a series of 23 open-ended questions after interpreting schematic drawings of AC motor circuits. This worksheet is printable and there are on-line answers to the questions.
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Design Project: AC-DC Power Supply

For Students 9th - 12th
In this electrical circuit worksheet, high schoolers answer 5 open ended questions about the design and safety of an AC-DC power supply.
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Design Project: Dual-Output AC-DC Power Supply

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this physics instructional activity, students design an electric power supply and answer 5 short answer questions about it. They explain the functions of the different circuit components.
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Brown Bag Science

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students discover, through the discovery method, how electricity works. They construct a simple circuit and a parallel circuit, make an electrical motor work and add a switch to turn it on and off.
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Ohm's Law

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Have you ever wanted to build a conductor? Here is a lesson that takes pupils through building a conductor based on Drude's model in order to better understand electricity.
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The Power of Graphene

For Teachers 6th - 12th
When you think electric circuits, your pencil probably isn't the thing that comes to mind. A simple experiment lets learners test whether the graphene in pencil lead is a conductor or an insulator. If the LED bulb lights up, a conductor...
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Electrostatics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Explore behavior of particles that cannot be seen with a detailed PowerPoint presentation that outlines the basics of electrostatics. The presentation addresses the charge of subatomic particles, conductors and insulators,...
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Squishy Circuits

For Teachers K - 12th
Make electricity flow through Play-Doh. Individuals create animals or other creatures using Play-Doh. The engineering aspect? Eyes that light up and Play-Doh that conducts electricity.
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Carrying Charges

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
What's all the buzz about electricity? Scholars take part in a scientific activity to test the conductivity of liquids and solutions. They first see if water, salad oil, alcohol, and vinegar cause a buzzer to buzz when electrodes are...
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Electricity: Will It Conduct?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students build conductivity testers and investigate which solids and solutions conduct electricity. Working in groups, they predict which items will conduct electricity and record their answers on worksheets.
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Electricity and Thermodynamics Review

For Students 9th - 12th
For this electricity and thermodynamics worksheet, learners review the major concepts of both series circuits and parallel circuits, they review types of thermal transfer, they match electricity terms with their definitions, they fill in...
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Using Electricity

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars read The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch to become familiar with the way a lighthouse works.In this using electricity lesson, student create lighthouses with plasticine clay and a working circuit. Students complete a worksheet...
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Conductors and Insulators

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore electrical terms and circuits.  In this conductor lesson plan students divide into groups and complete a lab on electricity.
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Brain POP - Electricity

For Students 6th - 8th
In this electricity worksheet, students answer 22 fill in the blank questions about conductors, flow of electrons, electrical circuits, and magnets.
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Circuits And Conductors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners predict the common classroom items, such as paper clips, chalk, keys, or erasers, that will be good conductors in a circuit. They build circuits using a variety of circuit diagrams to test their predictions.
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Circuits and Conductors

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this electricity learning exercise, students study the diagram of the circuits and conductors. Students write how bright each bulb glows.