Grades 7 & 9: Electricity

Make a real-world connection to your electricity content standards.

Participate in OEP’s professional development for 7th & 9th grade teachers and you’ll tour a power plant and receive curriculum with a classroom teaching kit. Registration is open to all Ohio Schools. See participation requirements below. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer the 7th/9th grade professional development in 2020.Programs are 9:30a-2:30p and include lunch.

Benefits for Participating Teachers

Tour of an Ohio electricity generating power station, facilitated by plant personnel.
Teaching Kit of Equipment worth over $450: Includes 6 sets of Snap Circuit Pro and other equipment to teach electricity in your classroom.
Teacher resources: NEED curriculum, OEP lesson plans and student worksheets.
Five professional development contact hours.

Grade 7 Content Standards

Evaluate an electrical circuit in terms of type, voltage, current, resistance and the transfer of energy to other forms.
Design, create and compare a series and parallel circuit.
Demonstrate an increase or decrease in resistance in a circuit.
Create a closed circuit that includes a parallel circuit and resistance and that shows changes in current and voltage.

Grade 9 Content Standards

Relate the flow of electrons through conductors and insulators and the concepts of current, voltage and resistance.
Distinguish between conductors and insulators.
Explain the two models of electric current in terms of charge and direction of flow.
Describe how power sources, including batteries, are sources of voltage.
Demonstrate how a variety of circuits are constructed as well as measure and compare the potential difference (voltage) and current.

Notes on Participation

Participation is limited to one time. If you have previously attended this grade-level workshop, you are not eligible to participate a 2nd time.
You must have a 2020-21 science teaching assignment for the grade-level you are applying.
Limit of two teachers per school may apply. This may change to one teacher per school depending on the number of applicants.
Participants will be selected to participate based on your school’s electric utility. Limited space is available to all schools in Ohio.
You will be notified by May 15th if you have been selected to participate.

View teacher lesson plans, student worksheets and pre/post assessments.

Questions? Email OEP staff.

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