Matter and Energy Unit Part 5: Electricity

This unit includes 5 lessons (50 minutes each) and 12 pages of printable work bundles. The Work Bundles have students fill-in critical notes, conduct exciting hands-on activities, answer questions, design circuits, includes games, built-in quizzes, and much more. The work bundles chronologically follow the detailed and interactive set of slideshows. A Quiz Game concludes for a great review and additional assessment. Answer Keys, materials list, video links, crosswords, built-in quizzes, and much more are provided. Everything you need to run a fantastic learning experience is provided. Everything arrives in editable format if you want add in your own slides and activities, and the slideshows and work bundles can easily be converted into Google Slides / docs for friendly Google Classroom learning.

This PowerPoint begins describing what our world would be like if we didn't harness electricity. The PowerPoint then describes the difficulties of defining electricity as it is a conglomeration of many definitions. Electricity is then related to charges in a series of slides. A brief review of atoms, with a focus on charged particles follows. Lightning is then described and a series of static electricity demonstrations follow. Electric Fields are then presented and a series of challenge questions has the students arrange slides so that the opposite charges attract, and the same charges repel. Many neat links are provided that lets the teacher connect to pHet simulators. A series of static charge demonstrations follow with visuals and arrows describing charge. These involve balloons and strings. How a Van de Graaff works is described, and many experiments are described with explanations. If you are unfamiliar or uncomfortable using a Van de Graaff or do not have one just skip these activities. Coulomb's Law is then described over a series of slides. A couple of neat questions to the class with visuals show a Faraday Cage. Current and Conductors of electricity are described, as well as semi-conductors. All of these are accompanied with visuals. An activity if you have a conductivity meter is described where students search the room for what they think will conduct electricity and which will not. The two types of electrical current (AC / DC) are described over a series of slides. A silent quiz follows where the teacher (Optional) plays AC/DC and points to students to go up to the board (Rocking it out hopefully) and touches the appliance that represents AC, and which represents DC. The activity lasts about as long one rock song. Watt's are covered next and a few word problems with answers are included. Amperes and resistance are covered, and symbols to build a circuit. Students then design a simple circuit, batteries are passed out and the students build a circuit. Questions with answers follow. (A basic class set for circuit building is needed here) Typical AC outlets are shown.

This PowerPoint includes critical notes (Red Slides), exciting visuals, challenge questions, activities with directions and more. Text is usually placed at the top of the slide so it can be read from all angles of a classroom. Color coded slides, as well as a shade technique is used to increase student focus and allows the teacher to control the pace of the lesson. These PowerPoints are meant to be interactive as possible and ask many questions, provides built in review opportunities, explains directions to activities, and much more.