Introduction

Look around you.

  • How many things do you see that require electricity in order to make it work?
  • How do these devices you see get the power to come on?
  • What makes this happen?

 

Lesson Objectives

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to...

  • Define electric charges and describe how electric charges transfer
  • Describe the electrical grid

Enduring Understandings

  • Electricity is a form of energy that can be transformed by moving electric charges doing work in various devices

The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Physical Science standards: 10.

This lesson incorporates the following Literacy Standards: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R10, W1, W2, W3, W4, W9, and W10.

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