SNC1W Unit 4: Electricity

Where does our electricity come from, and how do we use it well? Students make static charge with balloons, build circuits with AA cells, discover Ohm's law from their own data, solve circuit problems by hand and with a Python circuit calculator, and compare series and parallel circuits. They calculate power, energy, cost and efficiency, examine Ontario's electricity sources and their impacts on communities, including the First Nations–led Wataynikaneyap Power project, and explore storage technologies. Worked solutions are included for every problem.

Assessment of learning: an Energy Action Plan (home or school energy audit) with a rubric, plus a unit test with a worked answer key.

Lessons

1. Static Charges
2. Charging and Discharging
3. Conductors and Insulators
4. Circuit Components
5. Current, Voltage and Resistance
6. Ohm's Law Lab
7. Ohm's Law in the Real World
8. Code a Circuit Calculator
9. Series Circuits
10. Parallel Circuits
11. Electricity vs Electrical Energy
12. Efficiency and Energy Transformations
13. Generating Electricity
14. Energy and Communities
15. Storing Tomorrow's Energy
16. Energy Action Plan

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, safety notes, look-fors and answer keys
• Detailed slideshows (15 to 17 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus warm-ups, worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, lab sheets and exit tickets
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview, the summative task and rubric, and a unit test with a worked answer key

Built for the 2022 Ontario Grade 9 Science curriculum (SNC1W, de-streamed), and easy to adapt for any Grade 9 science class.