STAO On Line workshops

Contents

Home

Overview

Organizing Your Lab

Lesson 1
A Simple Electric Circuit

Lesson 2
A Series Circuit

Lesson 3
A Parallel Circuit

Lesson 4
Cells & Batteries Sources in Series and Parallel

Lesson 5
Resistance - Ohm’s Law

Lesson 6
Canadian Electricity Alternatives

Course Facilitator & FAQ's

Expectations

Acknowledgements

An Online Current Electricity Workshop - Why?

Ever since Grade 9&10 Science courses were changed to multi-disciplined approach, science teachers have had to teach some strands which were outside their major area of expertise.

Over the past few years, STAO ScienceWorks has provided this workshop at our annual conference and at regional workshops.

It has been developed primarily for teachers who have been assigned a grade 9 science course but whose major field of study is as diverse as Geography, English, Drama and Dance.

This course is designed for those who have very little or no experience with the concepts involved in Current Electricity.

We hope to provide everything a teacher, novice to this area, needs in order to teach this topic.

If you are such a person, then this course was created with you in mind. No question is too simple, no comment inappropriate.

To whatever degree, you belong to the target audience, your comments and questions are welcome. It is our hope that this course becomes a "Wiki"course, constantly improved by those involved.

Throughout this course we use the concept of modelling to help explain that which can not be directly seen.

There are many different models that can used as well as many different pedagogical approaches.

No model or approach explains everything or will work for every teacher or student. However in order to keep this as simple as possible we have limited ourselves to two main models, passing wooden blocks and the water analogy.