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Handout
Physics4kids

Physics4 Kids: Electricity and Magnetism: Current

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explains electric current, how it produces heat, and the difference between a direct current and an alternating current.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Practice Science Questions: Easy Electronics and Magnetism

For Students 3rd - 8th
Practice science questions on the subject of easy electronics and magnetism can be found on this website.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Practice Science Answers: Easy Electronics and Magnetism

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find the answers to the science quiz on the subject of easy electronics and magnetism on this site.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Electric and Magnetic Forces and the Modern Day Compass

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how a compass works using electromagnetic force. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Two Sides of One Force

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners learn more about magnetism, and how magnetism and electricity are related in electromagnets. They learn the fundamentals about how simple electric motors and electromagnets work. Students also learn about hybrid...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Electromagnet

For Students 9th - 10th
Easy-to-read information and an illustration of an "electromagnet," a type of magnet in which the magnetic field is induced by the flow of an electric current.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Motor Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
"A magnet exerts a force on current-carrying wire." This simple device shows how magnets affect wires with current in them, the basis of the electric motor. If you see, feel and understand this, the electric motor becomes very clear.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: How Electrons Move

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of interactive activities and games to explore how electric fields and magnetic fields move electrons and charged particles in directions that can be planned. Understand that knowing how to control the movement of electrons...
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Handout
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Charge Trajectories

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate a the forces exerted on a charged particle by electric and magnetic fields. Initially, find out how the charge behaves in an electric field. Then, see how the charge behaves in a magnetic field. Finally, initiate both fields...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Mass and Speed of a Particle

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine the mass and speed of a particle being fired through variable magnetic and electric fields. This problem is done after students determine the charge of an electron using the Millikan Oil Drop Experiment.
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Handout
University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: James Clerk Maxwell

For Students 9th - 10th
Research resources for James Maxwell (1831-1879), who did revolutionary work on electricity and magnetism and on the kinetic theory of gases.
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Activity
Science Museum, London

Science Museum: Pocket Motor

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Teacher directed activity shows students how flowing electrical current produces a magnetic field by building a simple motor.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Charles Augustin De Coulomb

For Students 9th - 10th
Spanish-language site lets students discover the life and work of this physicist and engineer, who is known for his studies of electric charges.
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Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Guitar Pickup

For Students 9th - 10th
Keith Richards and Eric Clapton owe their fame and fortune (in part) to electromagnetic induction. (Java tutorial)
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Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Audion

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1906, American physicist Lee De Forest invented the Audion (or triode), building on John Fleming's discovery of the diode just a few years before.
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Interactive
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Transformers

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this interactive, simple transformer to make a complete circuit via induction using two separate coils with iron cores inside.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Get Your Motor Running

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate motors and electromagnets as they construct their own simple electric motors using batteries, magnets, paper clips and wire.
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Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Build Your Own Perpetual Motion Machine [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson for learners to explore the conversion of energy from electrical energy to kinetic energy by constructing a homopolar motor. Also by constructing the motor, students can investigate magnetism, electricity, and RPM.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Curie Temperature

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this experiment, students experience the Curie point--and what happens when a piece of iron gets too hot to attract a magnet.
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Handout
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: E X B Trajectory Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Simulate the motion of a charged particle in electric and magnetic fields, and then complete the equations of motion using the Lorentz force law.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Ferromagnetic Material

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores what makes a material magnetic, ferromagnetic materials and how they can be magnetised, temporary and permanent magnets, and the mineral magnetite.
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Website
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Physics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A good resource offering lessons, animations, slide shows, example exams, and facts covering basic physics topics: mechanics, electricity & magnetism, energy, waves, and modern physics.
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: How Electrons Move

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Right and Left Hand Rules

For Students 9th - 10th
No fancy movement in this tutorial, but these rules come in very handy when trying to understand some of what's going on in our other tutorials.

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