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High Contrast Photographs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students take and develop pictures using patterns of light.
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Get Connected With Ohm's Law

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students engage in a study of Ohm's Law and conduct research into how the law functions in relationship to the functions for light bulbs. They conduct hands on activities and use digital multi-meters to collect data and plot it for...
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Help Save the Polar Bear

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this ecology awareness activity, students read a poem written on a polar bear's tummy that tells how changing light bulbs and saving energy will help save the polar bear and then color the bear. Students color 1 picture.
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Help Save the Polar Bear

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this energy conservation instructional activity, students read the poem about saving energy by changing light bulbs to save polar bears. Students may color the bear.
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Series and Parallel Circuits

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore electrical circuits. In this electrical circuit lesson, 4th graders research the history of the use of light and read a biography regarding Benjamin Franklin. Students the build basic circuits, series...
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Greenhouse Effect: Pop Bottle Experiment

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore global warming by conducting a weather experiment. In this greenhouse gas lesson, students define the greenhouse effect and the impact on our ozone layer. Students utilize a soda pop bottle, floodlight bulb, thermometers...
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Shiny Surfaces

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Here is a simple PowerPoint to support your lesson on the behavior of light. As you go through the slides, use real examples of dull and shiney materials for your elementary learners to view. Use the torch, sun, lamp, candle, and bulb...
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Inventions: The Impact

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students recognize that inventions are developed to fill a need.In this inventions lesson plan, students become familiar with the inventing process and create simple inventions. Students complete a worksheet about their inventions.
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Conductors and Insulators

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate conductors and insulators by testing their hypotheses. They use copper wire and batteries to light a bulb. They use a penny and a plastic spoon to determine which is an insulator and which is a conductor.
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Magnetism And Electricity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the concept of electricity and how to build a circuit. They identify the presence of heat, light, sound, and the magnetic effects. Students construct the circuit and draw a diagram that gives directions for its...
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E3 Project

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students investigate excited electrons. In this chemistry lesson plan, students will go through a series of activities designed to help them understand how excited electrons emit different colors of light.
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Energy Efficiency Ambassadors

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students consider how to cut their energy use. In this physical science activity, students investigate the connections between energy use and climate changes. Students compute the actual electrical energy consumption of 2 bulbs and...
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Orienting a Photovoltaic Cell

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the optimum angle for orienting a solar collector relative to the rays of incoming sunlight. They review equinoxes, solstices, and various locational ideas before students investigate using meters, light sources, and...
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Colored Shadows

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students explore how different colors are seen through the cone cells in our eyes.  In this light lesson students complete a lab activity with light and record their observations.
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Stellar Spectroscopy

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students investigate white light. In this science lesson, students participate in a variety of experiments in which they study light. Students use spectroscopes to view the components of light.
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Circuits

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discover the differences between parallel and series circuits. They draw and construct the two types of circuits using wires, bulbs, batteries, sockets, and switches.
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The Victorian Era

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Victorian Era worksheet, students research and name the three inventions from the Victorian Era, Queen Victoria's favorite composer and who invented the light bulband phonograph.
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Batteries in Series: Voltage and Light Intensity

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students participate in a hands-on activity to explore the relationship between the number of batteries in a series circuit and its voltage. Students identify the relationship between two variables and plot points on a graph.
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Lights Out!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine static and current electricity, and discuss what their lives would be like without electricity. They listen to a teacher-led lecture about electrons and atoms, and explore static electricity using a comb or a balloon...
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Turn On A Light And Do Your Own Revegetation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils use electricity and plant a seed to observe the process when coal is the major fuel source to produce electricity. They use the packet of native seeds to experiment with revegetation.
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Light and Optics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover the relationship between lens shape and the formation of images in an experiment. They use three different size converging lenses and a diverging lens to calculate and compare the focal length of each. They graph and...
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Introduction to Elementary Circuits

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore how a circuit works and create a circuit to use energy from a battery to light a bulb. In this introduction to circuits instructional activity, the students study the parts of a circuit and have a class discussion...
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Changing Circuits

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study how bulbs work by studying a series circuit and its components. In this electricity study activity, students complete a SmartBoard online activity to study a bulb light in an electrical circuit. Students discuss what would...
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Solar Kit Lesson #1 Solar Cell Inquiry

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students use a selection of solar panels, lamps, motors, and an AA battery to get as many motors or lights to operate as they can in an allotted time period. For each successful arrangement, they draw a diagram of their setup, label the...

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