Rocks and Minerals Information and Lesson Plans:
Lesson 1: "What is Electricity?" Download
Outcomes: Working towards identifying properties of static electrical charges (308-14), and describing the flow of charge in an electrical circuit (308-16). Provide examples of scientific knowledge that have resulted in the development of technologies.
Lesson 2: "Conductors and Insulators" Download
Outcomes: Students will be expected to rephrase questions in a testable form and clearly define practical problems (208-1), use instruments effectively and accurately for collecting data (209-3), identify and suggest explanations for discrepancies in data (210-7), provide examples of how science and technology affect their lives and their community (112-7), and working towards describing the flow of charge in an electrical circuit (308-16).
Lesson 3: "Static Electricity" Download
Outcomes: Students will be expected to identify properties of static electrical charges (308-14), explain the production of static electrical charges in some common materials (308-13), Identify and suggest explanations for, discrepancies in data (210-7), apply given criteria for evaluating evidence and sources of information (210-8), Identify potential sources of error and determine the amount of error in measurement (210-10), illustrate how technologies develop as a systematic trial-and-error process that is constrained by cost, the availability and properties of materials, and the laws of nature (109-6).
Lesson 4: "Movement of Charge in a Circuit" Download
Outcomes:Students will be expected to describe the flow of charge in an electrical circuit (308-16) and working toward comparing qualitatively static electricity and electric current (308-15).
Lesson 5: "Current and Circuits" Download
Outcomes: Students will be working towards describing the flow of charge in an electrical circuit (308-16) and describing series and parallel circuits involving varying resistance, voltage, and currents.
Lesson 6: "Door Buzzer Activity" Download
Outcomes: Students will be expected to describe the flow of charge in an electrical circuit (308-16), compare qualitatively static electricity and electric current, (308-15) describe series and parallel circuits involving carrying resistance, voltage and current (308-17)
Lesson 7: "Circuit Diagrams (Labeling) Download
Handout for students to better understand circuits and circuit diagrams.
Lesson 8: "Series vs Parallel Circuits" Download
Outcomes: Students will be expected to describe series and parallel circuits involving varying resistance, voltage, and current. (308-17).
Lesson 9: "Potential Difference" Download
Outcomes: Students will be expected to describe series and parallel circuits involving varying resistance, voltage, and current. (308-17).
Demonstrate and record a variety of methods of weathering and erosion, including demonstrate and record a variety of methods of weathering and erosion, including human impact on the landscape (301-6, 108-6, 105-1)
Describe natural phenomena that cause sudden and significant changes to the landscape (301-7).
Lesson 10: "Ohm's Law (Resistance)" Download
Outcomes: Students will be expected to describe series and parallel circuits involving varying resistance, voltage, and current. (308-17).
Lesson 11: "Ohm's Law Powerpoint" Download
Powerpoint to accompany Ohm's Law (Good demonstration of slope, if possible collaborate with the math teacher).
Lesson 12: "Meter Reading: Home Power Use" Download
Outcomes: Students will be expected to relate electrical energy to domestic power consumption costs (308-18) and determine quantitatively the efficiency of an electrical appliance that converts electrical heat to heat energy (308-19).
