Physics Instructional Guide

Electric Currents & Circuits

Physics

Quarter 4

McGraw Hill Module 19

RESOURCES

PACING

● Module Launch: 45 min ● Lesson 1: 90 min

Module 19: Electric Current & Circuits ● Phenomenon: How does energy get from the power plant to the lights in your home? ● Lesson 1: Currents & Circuits ● Module Wrap-Up

STANDARD

LEARNING PROGRESSIONS

● Students will explore current, electrical energy, circuit diagrams and ohm’s law. This will lead them to understand that electric current allows for the transfer of energy from the power plant to consumers

Standard PHYS.3.2 Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that an electric current causes a magnetic feld and that a changing magnetic feld causes an electric current. Emphasize the qualitative relationship between electricity and magnetism without necessarily conducting quantitative analysis. Examples could include electromagnets or generators. (PS2.C)

CONCEPTS (Nouns)

SKILLS (Verbs)

● Current and Circuits

● Engaging in argument from evidence

VOCABULARY

● Current ● Circuit

● Parallel ● Series

● Ampere ● resistance

K-12 LEARNING PROGRESSIONS (via USBE Core Guides)

Standard 3.2

END OF THE UNIT COMPETENCY WITH LANGUAGE SUPPORTS

Standard 3.2 What does it look like to demonstrate profciency on this standard? Identifying the phenomenon under investigation Students describe the phenomenon under investigation, which includes the following idea: ● that an electric current produces a magnetic feld and that a changing magnetic feld produces an electric current. Identifying the evidence to answer this question Students develop an investigation to plan and describe the data that will be collected and the evidence to be derived from the data, including: