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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Simple Coulter Counter

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students build and use a very basic Coulter electric sensing zone particle counter to count an unknown number of particles in a sample of "paint" to determine if enough particles per ml of paint exist to meet a quality standard. In a lab...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Earth's Energy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A hands-on lesson plan for helping students understand simple circuits, series circuits, and parallel circuits, and the differences between the three.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Lights On!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students in this activity will build simple circuits using a battery, wires, and light bulbs. This activity allows students to examine how electricity is conducted through a light bulb using a battery as a power source. Students will...
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Other

Bc Hydro: Power Smart for Schools: Electromagnetism

For Students 6th - 8th
This set of activities has middle schoolers using everyday items (batteries, magnets, compasses, iron and paper clips) to reveal the connection between electricity and magnetism. Ideally, students will already have experience building...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Can You Resist This?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
This lab demonstrates Ohm's law as students set up simple circuits each composed of a battery, lamp and resistor. Students calculate the current flowing through the circuits they create by solving linear equations. After solving for the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Potato Power

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use potatoes to light an LED clock (or light bulb) as they learn how a battery works in a simple circuit and how chemical energy changes to electrical energy. As they learn more about electrical energy, they better understand...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Solar Cell Power Output vs. Temperature

For Students 6th - 8th
Solar cells provide a clean way of making electricity directly from sunlight. In this project you will build a simple circuit and experimental setup to investigate whether the power output of a solar cell changes with ambient temperature.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Pointing at Maximum Power for Pv

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Student teams measure voltage and current in order to determine the power output of a photovoltaic (PV) panel. They vary the resistance in a simple circuit connected to the panel to demonstrate the effects on voltage, current, and power...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: What Is an Electric Circuit?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial the concept of electric potential difference is discussed. Electric potential is the amount of electric potential energy per unit of charge that would be possessed by a charged object if placed within an electric field...
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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Electric Switches

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Lesson focuses on how switches control the flow of electricity. Students are posed with the challenge of designing and building a simple switch into an electric circuit.
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Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Common Misconceptions Regarding Electric Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial, preconceived ideas regarding the nature of charge flow and the role of a battery in a circuit are addressed. In many instances, these preconceived notions about charge flow and batteries are incorrect ideas and are...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Series and Parallel Circuits

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What series and parallel circuits are and how they differ.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Introduction to Electricity by Creating a Light Up Quiz Board

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will learn how to create a simple circuit. They will create a matching quiz board that will light up when the correct pair is selected using electricity vocabulary from the text.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Mineral Electrical Conductivity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this activity is to test the conductivity of various minerals with a simple electrical circuit and draw conclusions about which ones would be used in electronics.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Electric Current

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The definition of electric current is explained and how to calculate an electric current. Includes links to resources for learning more about electricity, i.e., a...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Electric Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
Current transfers energy around circuits. Circuit components have various properties that can be measured and then used to make circuits for control and also circuits for testing other components.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Introduction to Electric Circuits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will show how to properly connect wires to make a closed electric circuit. Included in this will be how to connect batteries in series and/or in parallel, and how to properly measure potential drops across a resistor and...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Vikings: What Is an Electric Circuit?

For Students 4th - 6th
The god of thunder, Thor, controls thunder and lightning. Let's ask Thor about electric circuits.
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Project Britain

Primary Homework Help: Electricity Questions

For Students 3rd - 8th
Brush up on electricity facts before taking this interactive quiz. Students can get immediate feedback by checking the answers after each question.
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eBook
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Lessons in Electric Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn anything you ever wanted to know and more about electrical circuits here. Complete with in-depth explanations and detailed diagrams.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Calculations From Circuit Diagrams

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice calculating potential difference, resistance, and current for a component from a circuit diagram.
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Curated OER

Electricity: Simple Circuits

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Electric Circuits: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how to calculate voltage, current, and resistance in simple electric circuits. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Electric Circuits."
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Circuit Elements of a Simple Defibrillator

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a five-question quiz related to circuit elements of a simple defibrillator.