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Title:
| Electricity: Circuits, Conductors, and Batteries |
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Description:
| These sites have lots of illustrations and animations that demonstrate how electricity, circuits, and batteries work. Learn the difference between conductors and insulators. Includes suggested activities, hands-on experiments, and online quizzes. There is a link to an eThemes Resource on electrical safety. |
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Grade Level:
| 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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Resource Links:
| Electricity and Magnetism
Click on "Launch Gizmo" for an interactive explanation of electricity and currents.
BBC: Physical Processes
This is a good interactive site to help students understand circuits. Follow through the slides, then test your knowledge. Also includes a fact sheet and test. NOTE: The "Talk" link leads to discussion boards.
PBS: AC/DC: What's the Difference
This animated feature demonstrates the difference between alternating and direct currents. Click on "Gallery" for photographs of Thomas Edison and samples of his recordings. Click on "Timeline" for important events in his life.
Conductors and Insulators
This is an animated feature about electricity, circuits, and conductivity. Includes information about parallel and series circuits.
Electricity and Magnetism
This site features an interactive Shockwave presentation explaining how electricity and magnets work.
Super Sparker
Try this simple experiment and make your own lightning.
Theater of Electricity
This site about electricity includes video clips of lightning striking a kite and more.
Frankenstein's Lightning Laboratory
This site has three different activites on electricity: safety, static, and fruity electricity experiments.
Scholastic: Make a Flashlight Shine Brighter
Learn about circuits and then try the experiment. Includes a teacher's guide.
BBC: Electrical Conductor
Play online games and learn more about electrical conductors. NOTE: The "Talk" link leads to discussion boards.
eThemes Resource: Physics: Static Electricity
These sites explain what static electricity is and how it works. Covers the topics of atoms, electrons and protons. Includes several illustrations, an animated movie, and many hands-on science experiments.
eThemes Resource: Safety: Electrical
These sites include tips for awareness and prevention of electrical hazards. Students learn how to be safe with electricity inside and outside of their homes. Includes safety tips about lightning and power lines.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.6, 1.10, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 1, 7
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