Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Developing and Using Models
Crosscutting Concepts
Cause and Effect
Knowledge
Students know:
- How to develop and use models.
- Understanding of static electricity.
- Phenomena of electric and magnetic fields.
- How charges interact and how they behave in a field.
- How fields interact.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Properly use a voltmeter or mulimeter.
- Develop and use models to make predictions and to illustrate explanations.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Some forces act over a distance, creating fields.
- The behavior of objects in a field is predictable and caused by interaction of fields and charged particles.
Vocabulary
- voltmeter
- model
- fields
- field force
- energy
- potential energy
- electric potential
- electric charge
- positive
- negative
- like
- unlike
- electric field strength
- north and south magnetic poles
- magnet
- magnetic field strength
- conduction
- induction
- charge
- current
- conductors
- insulators
- compass
- multimeter
- work
- vector
- point charge
- test charge
- Coulomb's law
- proton
- electron
- attract
- repel
