Introduction to circuits and Arduino coding
Lauren Sahl, Maine Maritime Academy; Barbara Fleck, Maine Maritime Academy; Sarah O'Malley, Maine Maritime Academy
This activity guides students through making a simple circuit and writing a simple Arduino sketch (code) to make some LEDs blink. It precedes a lab where students build a temperature sensor, and could be used prior ...

Earth's Magnetic Field CogSketch geoscience worksheet
Bridget Garnier, Blue Valley School
Sketching activity that uses a sketch-understanding program, CogSketch. To draw attention to the changes in magnetic inclination with latitude on Earth, students move, rotate, and match packages of "rock" ...

Investigating Batteries: Building an Electrolytic Cell
carolyn fruin
This activity is an inquiry where students will design an electrolytic cell that produces work in the form of lighting a bulb.

Lighting the Way: Electrical Circuits and Lamp Wiring
Nichole A. Kotasek Minnesota New Country School Henderson, MN Utilizes original activities from TOPS Learning Systems, Electricity 32
This self-paced unit for students in grades 6-9 provides an opportunity to explore basic electrical circuits and demonstrate the new knowledge by wiring a lamp, explaining the components of the lamp that are important for the flow of electricity, and completing a schematic of the lamp circuitry.