Electricity

LightUp Electricity Kit

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Learn about electronics and programming with this circuitry kit. Build circuits in seconds with these magnetically snap-together blocks. Use the FREE iPad app to take a picture of your project and it will help you see how it works, and will help with the next steps. You can also program the Microcontroller using Codebender.

This Curriculum Kit includes:

2 Edison Kits
2 Tesla Kits

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Content Area:

Science

The Magic School Bus Complete Series Disc 7

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Welcome Aboard The Magic School Bus! Are you ready for a wild ride? Grab a seat and hang on for the Emmy® award-winning animated science-adventure series based on the best-selling books.

Author:

Joanna Cole

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

02:41

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (Unabridged)

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When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought, everyone's crops began to fail. Without enough money for food, let alone school, William spent his days in the library...and figured out how to bring electricity to his village.

Author:

William Kamkwamba

Bryan Mealer

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

960L

Length:

10:06

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (Unabridged)

Working Around Electricity (2007)

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Many students and teachers are injured each year because of their carelessness around electricity. Electricity can be either a friend or a foe.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:15

All About Electricity (2000, 2004)

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Understanding the world around us can be a real adventure! That's the message in this 11-part series for children in grades K-4. Kids travel along as our young host explores the world of physical science and how it can be seen, touched and understood in everyday life.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:23

Getting to Know Electricity (1998)

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Learn about electricity when Ben Franklin leaps out of the pages of a student's science textbook to help him with his homework. Using the latest computer graphics and experiments, Ben explains concepts such as lightning, static electricity, and simple, series, and parallel circuits.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Length:

00:15