Science Topics

Use science topic words to find web sites with lesson plans and activities.

Electricity

1. NatureShift!: linking learning to life
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 3 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 028270
   This web site, produced by the North Dakota Science Center, contains hands-on, problem-based activities, which are aligned with the NSES and National Social Studies Standards. The site helps children learn about concepts within science and technology, as well as about North Dakota history and geography.
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2. Kit and curricular companions
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 026393
   This Internet site provides a connection of links to curricula resources for technology, life, Earth, and physical science teachers in grades K-8. Developed by the Keystone Science Network, the site is intended to supplement national standards-based science kits, including Science and Technology for Children (STC), FOSS, and Insights; but all teachers will be able to use the resources to support their teaching.
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3. Conceptual physics SURF
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 012952
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for high school physics students, contains supplementary simulations and Internet resources that accompany the CONCEPTUAL PHYSICS curriculum. CONCEPTUAL PHYSICS is a physics program that uses simple language and cartoon like sketches to make physics more accessible to students.
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4. The blobz guide to electric circuits
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 5 - 9 Cost: Free ENC#: 029517
   On this Internet site, students work in teams of five or less to learn about circuits through a series of activities, games, and quizzes. This site contains five sections.
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5. Electricity online
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026870
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, part of the THINKQUEST COMPETITION series, contains text-based lessons, online activities, and a customizable classroom interface focused on electricity. ThinkQuest is a worldwide competition that challenges students from around the world to collaborate and create educational resources for the Internet community.
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6. The home page of Peggy E. Schweiger
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 015483
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed as a resource for high school physics teachers and students, contains electronic versions of all of the organizational and content handouts that Peggy E. Schweiger would give her students.
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7. Exploratorium, the museum of science, art and human perception
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1996 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 008389
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades K to 12 by the Exploratorium, offers online resources to support science education, virtual field trips to the museum, and introduces visitors to on line technologies through special exhibitions. The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception with over 500 interactive hands-on exhibits.
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8. Hands-On Technology Program
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 011636
   This Internet site, designed for students in grades K to 8, consists of activities in the areas of science and math. The science activities are further split into several units such as sound, dinosaurs, and recycling, each of which provides experiments related to a particular subject.
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9. Internet Plasma Physics Education Experience (IPPEX)
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1996 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 010902
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 8 and up as part of the Internet Plasma Physics Experience (IPPEX) by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), provides interactive modules on electricity, magnetism, energy, and fusion. The site was created to provide general information about the field of fusion research and to engage student through online projects such as IPPEX.
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10. Visual physics
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 010906
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed for students in grades 9 to 12, provides basic instruction in physics using manipulated animations. The animations feature physical principles such as force, work, and projectile motion, as well as electricity, kinematics, and momentum.
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11. How do you get electricity from a cow?
    Date: 2004 Grade(s): 4 - 7 Cost: Free ENC#: 101077
    How can people use cows to generate electricity? Students are given a clue before they select their answer to this riddle. In the text and video clip for the clue, two children share information about their unsuccessful attempt to use a pet cow to spin the metal coil in a generator.
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12. Static charged two by fours
    Date: 2004 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 101304
    How can you move a wooden two-by-four without touching it? This material is part of a series of hands-on science activities designed to arouse student interest. Here students use static electricity to attract and move a wooden two-by-four.
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13. National Energy Education Development (NEED) Project
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 029640
    This Internet site is the home page of the National Energy Education Development Project, which is dedicated to promoting an understanding of the scientific, economic, and environmental impacts of energy. The site provides numerous standards-based curriculum materials to help teach the scientific concepts of energy and provide objective information about energy sources.
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14. Poor Richard's energy almanac
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 3 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 029790
    This Internet site aims to help students discover how to conserve electricity and other kinds of energy through eight short readings. Through the eyes of Benjamin Franklin, students read how people of the 1700s lived without electricity.
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15. National Science Center (NSC): teacher tools
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026344
    This Internet site offers hands-on activities and resources for K-12 science and mathematics teachers. The National Science Center (NSC), in a partnership with the United States Army, developed this site to stimulate interest in mathematics and science careers and to improve technical literacy in students.
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16. Science Made Simple
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 017574
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 1 to 12, is an online version of the same titled monthly newsletter, Science Made Simple, which provides detailed answers to children's science questions. Each issue of the newsletter begins with a question children might ask, and then provides answers through science projects and experiments using household materials.
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17. The Atoms family
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 013229
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Miami Museum of Science as part of Science Learning Network (SLN), introduces K to 12 grade level visitors to educational activities relating to different forms of energy guided by famous gothic horror characters. The SLN is a collaboration among science museums to explore how telecomputing can support inquiry based science education.
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18. Solar energy science projects
    Date: 1995 Grade(s): 6 - 9 Cost: Free ENC#: 020375
    This electronic document, maintained for grades 6 to 9 by the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, presents four science projects that are designed to help students learn about solar energy and how it works. The first three projects focus on different ways to use solar thermal energy.
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19. Beakman's electric motor
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): 5 - 10 Cost: Free ENC#: 008645
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site provides instructions for making a small electric motor using a battery, copper wire, and a magnet. A list of further experiments to be done with the motor is included.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)