Digital Electrical Circuit Lessons Bundle - PhET Simulation & Questions

Save time while still keeping students engaged! These 6 resources are ready to post to Google Classroom for your students to experiment with building circuits. These simluations are a great way to reach your kinesthetic learners who may not thrive with distance learning. This is a way to engage students in authentic learning in science labs with limited equipment. They can be printed out and used as a worksheet too!

Specific Learning Outcomes:

• Demonstrate that a continuous loop of conducting material is needed for an uninterrupted flow of current in a circuit.
• Distinguish electrical conductors-materials that allow electricity to flow through them- from insulators-materials that do not allow electricity to flow through them.
• Recognize and demonstrate that some materials, including resistors, are partial conductors of electricity.
• Predict the effect of placing an electrical resistance in a simple circuit.
• Demonstrate different ways of lighting two lights from a single power source, and compare the results.
• Recognize that wiring two bulbs in series makes both bulbs glow less brightly than if the bulbs are wired in parallel.
• Demonstrate different ways of using two batteries to light a bulb, and compare the results.
• Recognize that wiring the batteries in series causes the bulb to glow brighter than it would if parallel wiring were used.

Key Vocabulary:

• circuit
• electricity
• electrons
• battery
• fuse
• switch
• current
• conductor
• insulator
• resistor
• series
• parallel

This resource is based on the Grade 5 & 9 Science curriculum of Alberta and is part of the Electricity & Magnetism Unit.

Resources included in this bundle:

Part 1: Building a Circuit - PhET Simulation & Questions

Part 2: Conductors & Insulators - PhEt Simulation & Questions

Part 3: Resistors

Part 4: Will it Shine? Round 1

Part 5: Series & Parallel Circuits

Part 6: Will it Shine? Round 2