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Battery Voltage
Look inside a battery to see how it works. Select the battery voltage and little stick figures move charges from one end of the battery to the other. A voltmeter tells you the resulting battery voltage.
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Teaching Resources
Main Topics
- Voltage
- Batteries
- Electrons
Sample Learning Goals
- Do the small blue spheres represent positive or negative charges?
- Which side of the batterey is labeled positive, and which side is negative?
- How can you determine which side of the battery is positive and negative just by the location of the blue charges?
Teaching Ideas
| Title | Authors | Level | Type | Updated |
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Basic Electricity: short inquiry activities includes ideas for several sims
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Trish Loeblein | MS HS UG-Intro |
HW Lab CQs |
7/29/12 |
| Batteries | Roberto Marrero | HS | Lab | 1/18/10 |
| Električna struja osmi razred | Vladan Mladenovic | MS K-5 |
CQs HW Demo |
8/9/11 |
You can submit your own ideas and activities.
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Software Requirements
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Microsoft Windows
XP/Vista/7 Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later |
OS 10.5 or later
Sun Java 1.5.0_19 or later |
Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later |
Credits
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