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Basic Electricity: short inquiry activities includes ideas for several sims
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| Title | Basic Electricity: short inquiry activities includes ideas for several sims |
| Description | This provides a structure for an inquiry activity that leverages the learning goals provided for the sims and the interactive engagement of the sims. This is a lesson that invites students to investigate the sim and the models shown to make sense, explain their ideas about the model, and describe their reasoning. The lesson describes ways to use all 4 sims. |
| Subject | Physics |
| Level | High School, Middle School, Undergrad - Intro |
| Type | Concept Questions, Homework, Lab |
| Answers Included | No |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | battery, inquiry, modeling, phet, resistance, switch, voltage |
| Simulation(s) | Battery-Resistor Circuit, Battery Voltage, Ohm's Law (HTML5), Ohm's Law, Resistance in a Wire (HTML5), Resistance in a Wire, Signal Circuit |
| Author(s) | Trish Loeblein |
| Contact Email | patricia.loeblein@colorado.edu |
| School / Organization | PhET |
| Date submitted | 7/28/12 |
| Date updated | 5/27/15 |
