Site Purpose and Organization

This site is a repository of documents, exercises, activities, and review to teach the basic principles of static and current electricity. The materials are designed to provide instruction to a 5th Grade class in order to achieve the core learning outcomes described in the Utah core science curriculum. You may see a summary of the curricular goals at the UEN Summary Page.

Teacher Materials: See the Teacher Resource Page
Student Packet: See the Student Packet

The lessons and contents are:

Lesson # Description Lesson # Description
One Electricty Basics and Vocabulary Two Static & Current Electricity
Three Bulbs, Batteries, Wires, Circuits, Pathways Four Basic Circuit Review, Open & Closed, Parallel & Series Circuits
Five Short Circuits, Insulators & Conductors Six Switches & Communication
Review Unit Review    

Unit/Lesson Objectives:

Each lesson will display a summary in this area of the page the Summary will include:

Learning Objectives:

Learning objectives are the key principles/terms, etc. that must be learned as part of the lesson

Activities

The activities that are part of each lesson are listed next.

Documents/Exercises

The documents and exercises, including assessments that are part of each lesson will be shown here