This is an adaptation of an in-person electromagnetism lab developed during the pandemic. A series of such redesigns is described on my Blog of Phyz as RT;DL (remote teaching; distance learning) activities. This activity utilizes videoclips of the classroom apparatus.

I designed it so that students grouped in Zoom breakout rooms could work through the videoclip observations while I could drop in or be summoned.

MAGNETIC ELECTRICITY

In Ørsted’s Discovery and Electric Magnetism, we explored how electric currents produced magnetic fields. In Magnetic Electricity, we explore how magnetic fields can be used to create electric currents. We'll wiggle wires in the maw of a big antique radar magnet, plunge a bar magnet into and out of a solenoid, turn a St. Louis motor into a St. Louis generator, and crank interconnected Genecons to see what happens.

Included:

Student print-friendly Google Docs file

Answer Key (Google Docs)

Access to video observations (link embedded in student file)

[In a virtual lab, users don't need any laboratory apparatus; all observations are provided in the observation presentation.]

Here's the Blog of Phyz post I wrote about the activity RT;DL Magnetic Electricity.