Static Electricity - A Hair Raising Phenomenon Grade Level: K - 6 Discussion: For years children at birthday parties have played with static electricity - whether they realized it or not. Bring this fun exercise to your classroom with the following simple experiment. Materials: latex balloons (oblong shape is better than round) Procedure: On a cool, dry day blow up the balloon and rub it on a rug or sweater. Bring the balloon close to a student's head. What ...

Batteries and Bulbs Beverly Gregor Oglesby School P.O. Box 388218 7646 S Green St Chicago IL 60638 Chicago IL 60620 (312) 535-3060 Objective: Pupils will be exposed to the uses of batteries and bulbs. Pupils will be able to explain the difference between series and parallel circuits. Materials Needed: batteries bulbs wire 2 switches 6 sockets plywood 16"x24" Strategy: Pupils will have h ...

Search Lessons Write a Lesson Plan Guide Selection Criteria Copyright Statement Printer friendly text Lesson Plan #:AELP-PHS0005 Brown Bag Science An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan Author: Judy Adair, Spring Creek Elementary, Broken Arrow, OK Date: May 1994 Grade Level(s): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Subject(s): Science/Physics OVERVIEW: This is a hands-on science investigation on electricity. Students learn through the discovery method ho ...

Title: Lesson 1: Flip A Switch Grade: 10-12 Subject: Coordinated Science 10, Biology, Physics, Chemistry Learner outcomes: Students will learn the connections of electricity between the sciences of Chemistry, Biology, and Physics. Students will learn how electricity is related to daily life. Students will enhance their Internet search skills. Students will learn to work productively and effectively in research teams. Students will learn how to create and maintain a resear ...

Title: Lesson 2 LOWER THE RESISTANCE Grade Level: 10 - 11 - 12 Subjects: Coordinated Science 10, Biology, Chemistry, Physics Learner Outcomes: Students will describe a series connection; state its important characteristics. Students will calculate current, voltage drops, and equivalent resistance when devices are connected in series. Students will describe a parallel connection; state its important characteristics. Students will calculate the voltage drop, currents, and e ...

Title: Lesson 4: Strike a Nerve Grade Level: 10 - 11- 12 Subjects: Coordinated Science 10, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics Learner Outcomes: Students will learn the relationship of the nervous system to an electric current. Students will earn that the nervous system is a flow of ions in motion. Students will compare series and parallel circuits to problems in the nervous system. Students will learn to identify the parts of a neuron. Students will discuss ...

Conductors and Insulators Leona Williams Cregier Vocational High School 8723 S. Calumet Ave. 2040 W. Adams St. Chicago, Illinois 60619 Chicago, Illinois 60612 312-874-9743 312-997-3690 Objectives: 1. To provide an understanding of basic electrical terms. 2. To compare the electric current flow in conductors and insulators. 3. To teach the operations of a series circuit by designing a quiz board. Materials: (For each group ...

Coulomb's Law Austin A.Winther Paul Robeson High School 6835 S. Normal Chicago, IL 60621 1-312-723-1700, ext. 411 Objectives: Observe qualitatively the relationship between electrical charge and force. Determine experimentally the quantitative relationship between force and the center to center distance between charged objects. Experience reinforcement of ...

Current-Carrying Coils In Magnetic Fields Landato, Janet St. Viator High School 201 S. Harvard 312 392-4050 Addison, IL 60101 312 833-3974 Objectives: At the end of this exercise the student should be able to: 1. predict the direction of movement for the pointer of a home-made galvanometer for a given current direction. 2. describe how the current-carrying coil exerts a force on the magnet. 3. predict how the number of turns of wire ...

Electric and Magnetic Fields Garrison, Earnest S. Schurz H.S. 536 Landau 794-8120 University Pk, IL 60466 534-5146 Objectives: To introduce the concepts of MAGNETIC AND ELECTRIC FIELDS to the students via the use of phenomenas as magnetism and electric current flows. Apparatus needed: Large magnets(2), Nails, Metal rings, Several Coils of wire, Van De Graff generator, Ping-Pong Ball, ...

Electric Currents and Circuits Williams, Claudette Dever Elementary School 929 Fair Oaks 1-312-889-9188 Oak Park, IL 60302 1-708-383-6661 Objectives 1) To create an awareness of the importance of electricity in everyday life. 2) To introduce basic electrical terms and to illustrate how electricity moves, both in series and parallel circuits. 3) To show the need for a complete electric circuit, how to control electron flow with ...

Electricity Tanya English O'Keeffe Elementary School 8435 Constance 6940 South Merrill Avenue Chicago IL 60617 Chicago IL 60649 (312) 734-1301 (312) 535-0600 Grade Level: Primary Grades 1 and 2. Objectives: Students will correctly make a simple circuit using a battery, bulb, and a wire so that the bulb will light. (A) Students will identify contact points in a simple electric circuit. (B) Students will ...

Electricity Julian Levey Teachers Acad. for Math and Science 8705 Kedvale 10 W. 35th St Skokie IL 60076 Chicago IL 60616 (708)674-6618 (312)808-0100 Objectives: This lesson is appropriate for all grades from 5th through high school. The main objective is to teach elementary electricity principles with the use of materials which are easily available. Materials Needed: 1.5 volt batteries (D cells) 3 volt bulb ...

Electricity Marie MCCadd Coles Elementary School 20332 S. Kedzie Ave. 8441 S. Yates Olympia Fields IL 60461 Chicago IL 60617 312-535-6550 Objectives: To explain how objects can receive a static electrical charge. To describe the effects of bringing objects with like and unlike charges near one another. To compare conductors and insulators. To identify and diagram a series circuit and a parallel circuit. To expla ...

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Electrochemistry Allen, Donna L. Bowen High School 804 S. Lyman Avenue 933-7200 Oak Park, IL 60304 524-8760 Objectives: One form of energy may be transformed into another. How can electricity be changed into chemical energy? How can chemical energy be transformed into electricity? Apparatus needed: Strips of copper, zinc, lead, magnesium 0.5 M solutions of soluble salts of copper, zinc, lead and magnesium ...

Electromagnets Shirley Porter-Cesair Charles R. Henderson 2004 So. 13th Ave. 5650 So. Wolcott Broadview Il 60153 Chicago Il 60636 (708) 344-8917 (312) 535-9080 Objective: The students will make an electromagnet and determine the strength of the electromagnet. Materials Needed: Small Compasses Three feet of insulated copper wire per person Six-volt battery Size D batteries Battery Holders Pieces of Cardboard Nails (3 inch ...

Electromagnets Tanya English O'Keeffe Elementary School 8435 Constance 6940 South Merrill Avenue Chicago IL 60617 Chicago IL 60649 (312) 734-1301 (312) 535-0600 Objectives: Grade Level: 3-4 The students will make an electromagnet that will attract a metal object. The students will increase the strength of an electromagnet so that it will attract an increased number of metal objects. The students will compare ...

Electrostatics Alyce Glauner Grant Community Academy P. O. Box 41603 145 S. Campbell Ave. Chicago IL 60641-0603 Chicago IL 60612 (773) 534-7275 Objectives: The main objective of the Mini-teach is to show Primary students that there is electricity in all matter. Materials Needed: Van DeGraff Generator 5 Balloons Rabbit's Fur Glass Rod 12-18 inches lo ...

Electrostatics Jan Dudzik Riverside Brookfield High School 1117 Greensfield 1st and Ridgewood Naperville IL 60546 Riverside IL 60546 (708) 778-8579 (708) 442-7500 Objective: High school students will identify two types of charges and will observe the charging of with various objects by friction, conduction, and induction. Materials: For each group: Magic tape, golf tube, cat fur, wool, electrophorus, salt, pepper, ...

Electrostatics John J. Miller Maine East High School 1743 E Forest Ave 2601 Dempster Des Plaines IL 60018 Park Ridge IL 60068 (708)297-6368 (708)825-4484 Objectives: Although this lab is based on the lab I perform with my high school sophomores, it has been adapted for the use for grade school. It works best in dry weather such as winter. This is a set of mini-labs designed to be inexpensive (a set can be made for less th ...

Exploring Series and Parallel Circuits Pamela Schneider Luther East High School 15223 Clark St. 2750 Glenwood-Lansing Rd. South Holland, Il. 60473 Lansing, Il. 60438 (708) 339-6461 (708) 895-8441 Objectives: 1. To arrange batteries, bulbs and wires into functioning series and parallel circuits. 2. To represent simple circuits using schematic diagrams. 3. To explain and compare the effects of series and parallel circuits ...

How Smart Are You About Electricity, Batteries And Conductors? Lorraine Epps Douglass Math and Science Academy 1437 N. Long Ave 543 N. Waller Street Chicago IL 60651 Chicago IL 60644 (312) 745-6802 (312) 543-6176 Objectives: Students will: - identify a battery and how it works. - identify how a flashlight works. - understand the relationship between a battery and electrons. - conduct a te ...

Introduction to Elementary Circuits Michael D. Jackson W.H. Carter 1617 E. 50th Place Apt. 6D 5740 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago IL 60615 Chicago IL 60637 312-363-4902 312-535-9205 Objectives: 1. Children should be able to predict ways to light a bulb. 2. Children should be able to define parts of an electrical circuit. 3. Construct and test models of electrical circuits. Vocabulary: 1. electrons 2. positive and ...

Janet M. Sheard - West School Series and Parallel Circuits Janet M. Sheard West School 4850 South Lake Park 1010 Forestway Drive CHICAGO IL 60615 GLENCOE IL 60022 (847) 835-6600 Objective(s): These lessons are designed for fourth-sixth grade students to do for five- seven days. Each student will be able to: 1. identify man's needs and uses for light in a time line. 2. understand that many peo ...

OHM'S LAW Anderson, Herbert D. Hermann Raster Elementary School P.O. Box 19391 Chicago, IL 60636 Chicago, IL 60619 1-312-651-4587 Objectives (a) to become aware of Ohm's Law, the relationship between current, voltage, and resistance in a series circuit (b) to solve selected problems using Ohm's Law Equipment and Materials Garden hose with nozzle; circuit board or plywood; 3 - 1.5 Volt DC batteries; 6 battery clips & 3 battery hold ...

Resistances In Series And Parallel Circuits Austin E. Barnett Bogan High School 8414 South Kimbark 3939 West 79th Street Chicago IL 60619 Chicago IL 60652 (312) 734-1123 (312) 536-2180 Objectives: 1. To observe the difference in illumination for a given set of bulbs when placed in series and in parallel circuits. 2. To calculate the IR drop across a network of resistances in series and parallel. Materials: ...

Stephen W. Ha - James Ward School Simple Circuitry and series circuit Stephen W. Ha James Ward School 3752 S. Wallace St. 2701 S. Shields Ave. CHICAGO IL 60609 CHICAGO IL 60616 (773) 534-9050 Objective(s): Note: This mini-teach is designed for a 3rd-grade or 4th-grade class. (1) Explain the elements that are required to build a basic electrical circuit. (2) Demonstrate and describe a serie ...

The Millikan L'Eggs Experiment Coleman, Roy Morgan Park High School 10549 S. Homan Ave. 881-5050 Chicago, Illinois 60655 238-2305 Objective: To use discrete masses to simulate the Millikan experiment (the discrete charge on the electron). Apparatus: one balance per group and EITHER a large number of L'Eggs eggs (from panty-hose) individually numbered and filled with ball bearings or clay such that the filler is divide ...

What Is Electricity Oldenburg, Albert Lindblom Tech High School 18W354 Holly Ave 471-8700 Westmont, IL. 60559 963-0838 Objectives: To develop an understanding of the fundamentals of static electricity, namely that of materials, conditions, and charge. To learn how to detect a charge by the use of electroscopes. To learn how to determine the force between charges. Materials Demonstration Van de Graaf generator, Jacobs ladder, thread, aluminu ...

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