Electricity and Magnetism Series

• Item # VLC011
• Copyright 2000
• For Grades 5-9
• 4x 20 minute Videos
• 4x Teacher's Guides

Specifically designed for the middle school science classroom, this 4-part series will help instructors teach difficult to understand concepts, differentiate instruction for diverse learners, and inspire the minds of students. Content is aligned to the curriculum and will help students prepare for the standardized science tests. Each 20-minute video includes on-screen questions, vocabulary words, and a 10-question quiz. The time saving teacher’s guide includes student-learning objectives, standards correlations, lesson plans, preliminary and post assessments, laboratory investigations, and vocabulary activities. Integrate media assets into lesson plans by showing the entire 20-minute videos, short clips, or multiple animations and images. Custom multi-media formats include h.264, Windows Media video, and DVD. Correlated to the NGSS.

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"...An innate sense of logical organization permeates the four videos. Each concept is clearly illustrated via well-paced narration and through a variety of crisp graphics, demonstration, and animation..." -- School Library Journal July 2000

Janet Musil, Sandburg High School, Orland Park, IL
School Library Journal
July 2000

Titles Include:

The Nature of Electricity

This video describes the basic role that atoms play in creating electrical charges, as well as the nature and creation of static electricity. Various methods of charging are discussed, emphasizing... [more]

Current Electricity

Students will learn how electrical current is generated and how electricity flows into their homes. The relationship among current, voltage and resistance in Ohm's Law and the differences between... [more]

Magnetism

This video explores the force of magnetism and how it affects our everyday lives. The atomic nature of magnetism is illustrated, and then applied in principle to common magnets. The video... [more]

Electromagnetism

Students will learn how electric currents create magnetic fields, and about the application of electromagnets in electric motors and other machines. The process of inducing a current into a wire via... [more]