Electricity Lesson Plan: Energy
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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic Electricity, and supports the standard of making observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by electric currents. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.
Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Ask students:
- What do you already know about electricity? How do you use electricity in your daily life?
Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE
- Read the description on the Electricity topic page.
- Play the Movie, pausing to check for understanding.
- Assign Related Reading.
Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS
Assign Electricity Quiz, prompting students to apply essential literacy skills while demonstrating what they learned about this topic.
Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND
Students express what they learned about electricity while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student needs.
- Make-a-Movie: Produce a mini documentary explaining the impact of Michael Faraday’s discovery about motion and electricity.
- Make-a-Map: Identify types of electricity and provide real-world examples of each.
- Creative Coding: Code a comic about Benjamin Franklin’s discovery that lightning is an electric charge.
More to Explore
Sortify: Current Electricity: Challenge players to sort by attributes, such as parts of a circuit, uses of electricity, and more in this learning game.
Related BrainPOP Topics: Deepen understanding of energy and its transformations with these topics: Current Electricity, Static Electricity, and Electric Circuits.
Teacher Support Resources:
- Pause Point Overview: Video tutorial showing how Pause Points actively engage students to stop, think, and express ideas.
- Learning Activities Modifications: Strategies to meet ELL and other instructional and student needs.
- Learning Activities Support: Resources for best practices using BrainPOP.
