Electricity and Magnetism
Rationale: According to the California State Science Content Standards, electricity and magnetism are important concepts for 4th grade students. These concepts are rarely taught in an elementary school setting however. Teachers often find the subject too intimidating to tackle. In order to help facilitate the dispersion of these ideas, four separate lesson plans have been created in the subject.
Disclaimer:
Some of the procedures for the activities contained in the lessons have
been adapted from various resources listed throughout the module.
Part
1:
Electric
Current
Introduces ideas of electric current from the microscopic and macroscopic
points of view
Static
Electricity
Introduces idea of static electricity
Part
2:
Magnetism
Introductory explorations with magnetism
Part
3:
Connecting
Electricity and Magnetism
Begins to connect electricity and magnetism
Part
4:
Electricity, Magnetism, and Work
Applications of electricity and magnetism
This
work was supported by the Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular
Assemblies (CPIMA)
as part of the NSF Materials Science and Engineering Center program under
Grant DMR 9808677
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