From the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement project at the Illinois Institute of Technology. A teacher lesson plan which includes several Van de Graaff generator demonstrations and some station-style labs....

Examine a car engine illustration to discover the relationship between a motor and a generator. List the pros and cons of hybrid cars, and create a poster on series hybrid cars, parallel hybrid cars or how hybrid cars are different from...

This chart provides an overview of the history of the battery and the generation of electricity.

What is wind energy? Learn how to use wind energy to generate power, how winds are formed, how it generates electricity, how a wind turbine works, and the advantages and disadvantages of wind energy.

Kids learn about wind energy and how this renewable power can help the environment. Teach students about turbines that generate electricity from the wind.

Adjust the voltage on a Van der Graaff generator to see how the charges will affect a person's hair.

What is geothermal energy? Discover how it is obtained and generated and learn about the advantages and disadvantages.

Compared to incandescent lamps, fluorescent lamps last longer, require less energy and produce less heat, advantages resulting from the different way in which they generate light.

Enrico Fermi was a titan of twentieth-century physics. He outlined the statistical laws that govern the behavior of particles that abide by the Pauli exclusion principle and developed a theoretical model of the atom in his mid-twenties....

In this lesson plan the students will learn how the heart functions. Students will be introduced to the concept of action potential generation. The lesson plan will explain how action potential generation causes the electrical current...

Solar power is hot these days. Gleaming, black solar panels soak up rays on more and more rooftops of homes and businesses providing a clean, alternative source of heat and electricity. You might guess that different times of the day...

Website companion to PBS show, "Rough Science," in which five scientists use their collective expertise to complete a series of tasks. Follow the scientists as they do things like generate electricity, make soap, make antibacterial...

Chapter 7 of a report on the energy industry in Texas. It looks at coal, its history, its uses, its economic impact in Texas, consumption, mining, and the transportation of coal. The process of generating electricity from coal is...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students use the activity series to identify elements that are more easily oxidized than others, and write oxidation and reduction half-reactions. Then, they...

Read about an innovative technology in fabric that allows users to generate enough electricity through movement to charge devices such as cell phones. Includes video.

A white paper is a focused analysis often used to describe how a technology solves a problem. In this literacy activity, students write a simplified version of a white paper on an alternative electrical power generation technology. In...

Can you generate electricity from the flow of water by designing a waterwheel? In this challenge, students will be using everyday objects to create their waterwheel. This site contains a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to...

Transformer house of the first large-scale, alternating current electric generating plant in the world; tapped power of Niagara Falls via a 7,500 foot (2,286 m) tail-race tunnel.

This lesson gives a real world example of challenges and choices engineers face in their careers. The Della Steam Plant Case Study allows students to analyze and present finding about a problem found in the power plant's turbine system....

Manually or computer generated, students can test radio waves being transmitted from a virtual radio station to a home. Study the curve, vectors, electric field, and more.

View a slideshow to get an extensive overview of how geothermal energy is generated and how it is expressed at the earth's surface. Also discover how geologists locate geothermal hot spots and use them to produce electricity.

In 1831, Michael Faraday carried out numerous experiments to prove that electricity could be generated from magnetism. He not only demonstrated electromagnetic induction, but also developed a good conception of the processes involved....

Students form expert engineering teams working for the (fictional) alternative energy consulting firm, Greenewables, Inc. Each team specializes in a form of renewable energy used to generate electrical power: passive solar, solar...

In this activity, students develop an understanding of how engineers use wind to generate electricity. They will build a model anemometer to better understand and measure wind speed.