Ideal for your electricity unit, especially with middle schoolers, this lesson plan gets engineers using multimeters in electrical circuits to explore the relationships among voltage, current, and resistance. Older learners may even plot data on graphs to see the E-I curves. It's a full-fledged resource for your physical science learners!

Concepts

circuits, currents, electricity, ohm's law, resistance, voltage

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Additional Tags

voltage, resistance, current, electricity, circuit, ohm's law, science

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Pros

• Richly detailed teacher's notes even include photos and diagrams of circuit setup
• Lab sheet includes vocabulary, concept explanations, diagrams, graphs, and problems to solve 
• Meets various Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards

Cons

• None

Common Core

5.MD.A.1 5.G.A.2 6.RP.A.3.a 6.EE.A.2.a 6.EE.B.6 6.EE.B.7 7.RP.A.2.a 7.RP.A.2.c 8.F.A.1 HSA-CED.A.4 HSA-REI.B.3