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Ten Useful Websites for Electricity Resources
1. http://www.crocodile-clips.com
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Download crocodile clips for free trial or Buy licence for school.
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Download Yenka for 15 day free trial or Buy licence for school or
Download free for home use only.
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Includes maths, science and technology interactive applets. Useful for
new project maths course too!
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Absorb physics contains interactive worksheets, useful for revision aids
and animations.
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School site licences are a once off payment and vary in price depending on
the number of students in your school. This can vary from €250 to €500
depending on the product.
http://www.absorblearning.com/media/search.action#search
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Absorb physics have a free animations for use or you can buy a school
licence for full access to download and use in powerpoint or on an
interactive whiteboard.
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Nice animations showing for example p-n junction formation, penetrating
ability of alpha, beta and gamma particles, resistor 3 colour code
convertor, current in cold and hot wires, long and short wires.
http://www.absorblearning.com/media/search.action#search
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Absorb electronics as above
Price Information
Mathematics
Absorb Mathematics
Absorb Mathematics
Resources
Small School
Medium School
Large School
1-599 pupils
in total
600-1199 pupils
in total
1200+ pupils
in total
€250
€375
€500
€100
€100
€100
Small School
Medium School
Large School
1-599 pupils
in total
600-1199 pupils
in total
1200+ pupils
in total
Absorb Chemistry
€250
€375
€500
Absorb Chemistry Resources
€100
€100
€100
Absorb Physics
€250
€375
€500
Absorb Physics Resources
€100
€100
€100
Absorb Advanced Physics
€250
€375
€500
€100
€100
€100
Small School
Medium School
Large School
1-599 pupils
in total
600-1199 pupils
in total
1200+ pupils
in total
€250
€375
€500
€100
€100
€100
Science
Absorb Advanced Physics
Resources
Technology
Absorb Electronics
Absorb Electronics
Resources
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These are recommended prices, and may change without notice. Please
check prices with your local distributor at the time you wish to order.
These School Site Licences let you use the software on any number of
computers at one school site. It also permits students and employees of
the school to use the Absorb product at home.
Prices are one-off payments - not annual subscriptions
Republic of Ireland Distributors
Chip Electronics Ltd.
Hollyhill Industrial Estate
Cork
Ireland
Tel: 021 4289958
021 4289958
Fax: 021 4393816
Web: http://www.chip.ie
Diskovery
Unit 10, The Stables Office Park
Portmanock
Co.Dublin
Ireland
Tel: 3531 8063910
Fax: 3531 8038977
Web: http://www.diskovery.ie
2. http://powerup.edfenergy.com/teachers-parents/teachingresources/resources-for-ks3.aspx
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This website has several resources on it including :
o circuit builder which students can use at home or in the schools
computer room
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spot the hazard which is an interactive town map
o
power quiz which contains 10 questions each time you try it the
questions change.
o The electric journey, showing how electricity gets into the home
o Did you know facts on the side of web page
o Teaching resource lesson plan with a worksheet to make a test your
nerves game. This is quite easy to make and operates on the
principle of closing the circuit sound the buzzer.
3. http://www.teachersdomain.org
Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educational use from public
broadcasting and its partners. You’ll find a lot of media resources, support
materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and
teacher professional learning communities.
All you have to do is register! No cost involved.
One of the videos shows you how to make an electroscope from a polystyrene
cup, straw and tinfoil. Each video includes background information and
discussion questions. Once you have registered just type in making electroscope
into the search teachers domain.
4. http://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/estatics/isop.cfm
This is an excellent site with lots of animations such as charging electroscopes
and earthing.
5. http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics
Lots of physics simulations including Faraday’s law, static eletricity and circuit
construction.
6. http://www.ehow.com/videos-on_7166_electric-experiments-jell_o_lemons-potatoes.html
Videos on some basic circuits using food such as potatoes, lemons and jelly.
Circuits include; water battery, lemon battery, potato capacitor, jelly
resistor, ethanol jelly and high voltage!
7. http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/video/?viewall=1
Steve Spangler is famous for the diet coke and mentos experiment. Check
out some of these videos to get great ideas for class or to use alongside your
own material. One really cool one is the electric pickle which can also be
found on you tube. This is where a pickle is connected to 120V and glows as
the electricity passes through!
8. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=electricity+experiments&
aq=1sx
You tube for obvious reasons can’t be used in school but if you type in voobys
to replace the word youtube in the address bar while you are watching the
video you can then download and save all your useful videos for class! Make
sure when saving you have .flv after the name otherwise it will not play in the
flv player.
Eg. Electricpickle.flv
To download the flv player for free go to
http://download.cnet.com/FLV-Player/3000-13632_4-10467081.html
9. http://www.flashscience.com/electricity/index.htm
Contains nice interactive applets including calculating current in a
series/parallel circuit, transformer and resistor colour codes explained.
10. http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/ipod-touch2.htm
Integrate the new iphone touch into your capacitor lesson. Find out how it
works on howstuff works.
11. http://www.teachers.tv/search/list?page=5&q=&t=811,1033&tn=&subject
_tid=&noscroll=1
This contains some nice videos of sound eg. Shattering a wine glass, using
bubbles to show sound is a form of energy and cracking a whip. Not many
electricity videos though!