Interactive
Curated OER

Sources of Electricity

For Students 10th - 12th
In this online electricity worksheet, students are asked 10 questions about electric current and battery energy, an online answer key provided.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tucson Children's Museum Electricity Crossword

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this Tucson Children's Museum Electricity worksheet, students review and discuss twenty key terms associated with electricity and complete a crossword puzzle with those key terms.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tucson Children's Museum Electricity Word Search

For Teachers 5th - 9th
For this Tucson Children's Museum Electricity worksheet, students review and discuss twenty key terms associated with electricity and circle each key term in a word search puzzle.
Lab Resource
Colorado State University

How Can You Demonstrate the Different Efficiencies of Different Light Bulbs?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Need a bright idea for an engaging lab? Watch your class light up as they explore the difference in efficiency between incandescent and LED bulbs! The resource makes use of simple materials and encourages learners to infer what's...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Solar Electricity

For Students 9th - 11th
In this solar electricity and satellites worksheet, students calculate the perimeter of a satellite, they find the area of the surface of the satellite and they determine if there is sufficient space for enough solar panels to supply the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Electric Motors

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the different types of electric motors including their history and classification.  In this motor instructional activity students complete several experiments with different motors.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

MINI-UNIT on ELECTRICITY

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify hypotheses related to static electricity, to begin to test the hypotheses, to begin to develop conclusions related to observations, to demonstrate that like charges repel and unlike charges attract each other, to name...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Electric Power Transmission and Distribution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explain how power is transmitted over long distances. In this physics lesson, students simulate controlling power flow in parallel transmission lines. They discuss several applications of wireless power transmission.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Design Project: Arbitrary Waveform Generator

For Students Higher Ed
In this electronics worksheet, students build a circuit that can produce desired waveforms. They answer 1 short answer question that follows.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Electricity: A Friend, a Foe

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students study what electricity can do and what some of the associated dangers are.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Be Energy Wise!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students perform activities to explore how electricity comes into their homes. They list appliances and devices in their homes that use electricity. Students create reminders and posters to help their families remember to turn off lights...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Electrical Energy

For Students 6th - 12th
In this electrical energy instructional activity, students will review currents and electrical circuits, including how electrical energy is measured. This instructional activity has 6 words scrambles, 6 fill in the blank, 5 multiple...
Lesson Plan
Carnegie Mellon University

How Power Plants Work 2

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this second of three lessons on power plants, future engineers find out how we generate electricity and how coal-powered plants operate. They work in small groups to make electromagnet generators to light LED bulbs. A set of...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Electricity

For Students 7th - 9th
In this science learning exercise, students use the clues given at the bottom of the sheet to solve the crossword puzzle on electricity. They identify a simple device that generates electricity and a substance that allows electrons to...
PPT
Urbana School District

Electrostatics

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Why did lightning shock the man? Because it didn't know how to conduct itself. Presentation covers electric charges, insulators, conductors, electroscopes, lightning, generators, grounding, static electricity, and more. Presentation...
Lesson Plan
Earth Day Network

Forms of Energy

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Give me a home where electric buffalo roam and I'll show you an ohm on the range. Introduction your classes to potential and kinetic energy, electricity, and renewable resources with a resource that combines observation, direct...
Lesson Plan
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Purdue University

Design of a Door Alarm

For Teachers 4th
How does electricity work? Budding scientists explore the concepts of electrical currents and open and closed circuits with class discussion and a hands-on activity using a battery to turn on a light bulb. Learners also make predictions...
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Bonneville

Biolite - Fire to Phone Charging

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Provide the spark to foster a love of science. Instructors perform a demonstration that uses a camping stove to generate electricity to charge a phone. Pupils use data from the experiment to the calculate the efficiency of the stove....
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

AC Transformer

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
High voltage power lines deliver electricity to homes, but each home requires low voltage. How does the energy get converted so it can be used safely? Pupils explore alternating current and transformers through a simulation. They control...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Read an Electric Meter

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore electricity. In this science lesson, 3rd graders discuss how electricity is transmitted and complete a worksheet in which they practice reading an electric meter.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Electric Eels

For Students 9th - 12th
In this electric eels worksheet, high schoolers read about the special muscle cells called electroplaques found in electric eels. Then students complete 3 short answer questions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Transmission of Electricity

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine why electricity is distributed at high voltage and the functions of transformers.  In this electromagnetism lesson students study at what frequency electricity is distributed. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Electricity/Magnetism

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore magnets as fundamental parts of generators and how they are used to produce current electricity. They distinguish between the north and south pole of magnets and the difference between repel and attract. Students...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Alessandro Volta: The Invention of the Voltaic Pile (The First Electric Battery)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers conduct a series of experiments on electricity. In this physics lesson, students study the work of Alessandro Volta particularly his experiment on the the Voltaic Pail. They build their own Voltaic Pile to recreate his...