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Track #319394: Adventures in Electricity
Annotated by: April Hodges
1. What is electricity?
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter02.html

Investigate this site to find out where electricity comes from. Identify the different parts of an atom and find out where the word electricity comes from. Record your answers on your fact sheet to include in your final unit project.

2. History of Electricity
http://firstenergy.apogee.net/kids/

This site provides some interesting facts about people who were important in discovering what electricity was and what it could do. Click on the Let's Explore Energy button at the top of the page and find out what interesting things these investigators did by clicking on each scientist's name. Choose one scientist and create a fact card about him. Be sure to illustrate it. Then explore the website to find out some fun and neat facts about electricity.

3. Circuits
http://www.andythelwell.com/blobz/

This is a great site students! Enter it and learn all about electrical circuits. You will need to enter the number of students who are working on the site. Work your way through each of the five sections completing the quiz at the end of each section. Be sure to draw and label an example of a working circuit.

4. What's Wrong with this Picture?
http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/frankenstein/safety.html

Use this website to find out electricity safety rules to include in your informative brochure. Click on the characters to find out what safety rules they are breaking. Record three to five facts to use later in your final product assessment.

5. Lightning
http://www.rp-l.com/rplkids.htm

What is lightning? How is it formed? Visit this site to find out!!! Define lightning and identify how lightning works. You will also want to make note of some of the warnings this site gives you about lightning safety.

6. Electricity Expert
http://www.esb.ie/main/about_esb/smart_spark.jsp

Now that you have explored many differents aspects of electricity, test your knowledge. Go to this site and try these challenges. Start at challenge 1, and see how far you can go. Have fun and good luck. Let's see if you really are an electricity expert.

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