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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Electromagnets

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan contains several activities designed to help the student understand the magnetic effects of an electrical current.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism: 1960 1979

For Students 9th - 10th
Computers evolve into PCs, researchers discover one new subatomic particle after another and the space age gives our psyches and science a new context.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism: 1870 1879

For Students 9th - 10th
The telephone and first practical incandescent light bulb are invented while the word "electron" enters the scientific lexicon.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism: 1850 1869

For Students 9th - 10th
The Industrial Revolution is in full force, Gramme invents his dynamo and James Clerk Maxwell formulates his series of equations on electrodynamics.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism: 1840 1849

For Students 9th - 10th
The legendary Faraday forges on with his prolific research and the telegraph reaches a milestone when a message is sent between Washington, DC, and Baltimore, MD.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism: 1940 1959

For Students 9th - 10th
Defense-related research leads to the computer, the world enters the atomic age and TV conquers America.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism: 1930 1939

For Students 9th - 10th
New tools such as special microscopes and the cyclotron take research to higher levels, while average citizens enjoy novel amenities such as the FM radio.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism: 1910 1929

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists' understanding of the structure of the atom and of its component particles grows, the phone and radio become common, and the modern television is born.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism: 1890 1899

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists discover and probe x-rays and radioactivity, while inventors compete to build the first radio.
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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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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Faraday Motor 1821

For Students 9th - 10th
Few inventions have shaped technology as much as the electric motor, but the very first version - the Faraday motor - didn't look anything like the modern motor.
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Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Davenport Motor 1834

For Students 9th - 10th
Odd though it seems today, when Thomas Davenport was selling one of the first electric motors way back in the 1830s, nobody was buying.
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Handout
US Energy Information Administration

U.s. Eia Energy Kids: Timelines: Electricity

For Students 9th - 10th
Timeline of key discoveries and uses of electricity.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Science: Magnetism

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the science of magnetism. Mysterious force together with electricity.
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Website
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is Magnetic Field?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Magnets can be used as toys, tools, and more. Identify how magnets work, what a magnetic field is, as well as what a magnetic force is.
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Other

Science Toys: Magnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes how to make several toys with magnets. It also gives an explanation of how they work and where to get the right kind of magnets.
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Website
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Who Discovered Electricity?

For Students 3rd - 9th
It is shocking to find out what electricity is and who discovered it. Explore this brief history of electricity.
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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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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Magnets and Electricity: Creating Magnetism With Electricity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will work in small groups to design at least one complete circuit using multiple materials. They will record their observations of how they created an electrical circuit using diagrams and notes in their journals. Using a...
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Wheatstone Bridge 1843

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the device used for measuring resistance in a circuit which was discovered in 1843, but had been invented a decade earlier. The inventor's name was not Wheatstone.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Electric Generator Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An electromagnetic induction model that simulates an electric generator made from a conducting loop rotating in a uniform magnetic field and connected to an ammeter.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Oersted's Compass 1820

For Students 9th - 10th
Compasses had been steering people in the right direction for many centuries when, in the year 1820, one particular compass made a very different sort of revelation to an unsuspecting Danish science professor.
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Physics4kids

Physics4 Kids: Electricity and Magnetism: Resistance

For Students 6th - 8th
Explains electrical resistance and how it is measured using the formula for Ohm's Law.

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