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Light and Electricity Activities

These activities, divided into age-appropriate groupings from kindergarten to grade 12, build toward challenges associated with the Nepal Light Project Challenge.

Division I (K-3)
  • Activity 1: Who needs a compass
  • Activity 2: Discovering the "law of magnets"
  • Activity 3: Why does a compass always point north
  • Challenge: Make a compass
  • Division II (4-6)
  • Activity 1: Electricity in our daily lives
  • Activity 2: Find electrolytes
  • Activity 3: Make your own voltaic pile
  • Division III (7-9)
  • Activity 1: Construct a galvanometer
  • Activity 2: Calibrate the galvanometer
  • Activity 3: Make a generator
  • Activity 4: Variables affecting the generation of current
  • Division IV (10-12)
  • Activity 1: Construct a galvanometer
  • Activity 2: Calibrate the galvanometer
  • Activity 3: Make a generator
  • Activity 4: Variables affecting the generation of current
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    » Implementation
    » Background
    » Nepal Light Project
    » Light and Electricity
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