Ten Useful Websites for Electricity Resources

  • Download crocodile clips for free trial or Buy licence for school.
  • Download Yenka for 15 day free trial or Buy licence for school or Download free for home use only.
  • Includes maths, science and technology interactive applets. Useful for new project maths course too!
  • Absorb physics contains interactive worksheets, useful for revision aids and animations.
  • School site licences are a once off payment and vary in price depending on the number of students in your school. This can vary from €250 to €500 depending on the product.
  • Absorb physics have a free animations for use or you can buy a school licence for full access to download and use in powerpoint or on an interactive whiteboard.
  • Nice animations showing for example p-n junction formation, penetrating ability of alpha, beta and gamma particles, resistor 3 colour code convertor, current in cold and hot wires, long and short wires.
  • Absorb electronics as above

Price Information

Mathematics / SmallSchool
1-599 pupils in total / MediumSchool
600-1199 pupils in total / Large School
1200+ pupils in total
Absorb Mathematics / €250 / €375 / €500
Absorb Mathematics Resources / €100 / €100 / €100
Science / SmallSchool
1-599 pupils in total / MediumSchool
600-1199 pupils in total / Large School
1200+ pupils in total
Absorb Chemistry / €250 / €375 / €500
Absorb Chemistry Resources / €100 / €100 / €100
Absorb Physics / €250 / €375 / €500
Absorb Physics Resources / €100 / €100 / €100
Absorb Advanced Physics / €250 / €375 / €500
Absorb Advanced Physics Resources / €100 / €100 / €100
Technology / SmallSchool
1-599 pupils in total / MediumSchool
600-1199 pupils in total / Large School
1200+ pupils in total
Absorb Electronics / €250 / €375 / €500
AbsorbElectronics Resources / €100 / €100 / €100
  • These are recommended prices, and may change without notice. Please check prices with your local distributor at the time you wish to order.
  • These School Site Licences let you use the software on any number of computers at one school site. It also permits students and employees of the school to use the Absorb product at home.
  • Prices are one-off payments - not annual subscriptions

Republic of Ireland Distributors

Chip Electronics Ltd.

Hollyhill Industrial Estate
Cork
Ireland
Tel: 021 4289958 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting021 4289958end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Fax: 021 4393816
Web:

Diskovery

Unit 10, The Stables Office Park
Portmanock
Co.Dublin
Ireland
Tel: 3531 8063910
Fax: 3531 8038977
Web:

  • This website has several resources on it including :
  • circuit builder which students can use at home or in the schools computer room
  • spot the hazard which is an interactive town map
  • power quiz which contains 10 questions each time you try it the questions change.
  • The electric journey, showing how electricity gets into the home
  • Did you know facts on the side of web page
  • Teaching resource lesson plan with a worksheet to make a test your nerves game. This is quite easy to make and operates on the principle of closing the circuit sound the buzzer.

Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. You’ll find a lot of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities.

All you have to do is register! No cost involved.

One of the videos shows you how to make an electroscope from a polystyrene cup, straw and tinfoil. Each video includes background information and discussion questions. Once you have registered just type in making electroscope into the search teachers domain.

This is an excellent site with lots of animations such as charging electroscopes and earthing.

Lots of physics simulations including Faraday’s law, static eletricity and circuit construction.

Videos on some basic circuits using food such as potatoes, lemons and jelly.

Circuits include; water battery, lemon battery, potato capacitor, jelly resistor, ethanol jelly and high voltage!

Steve Spangler is famous for the diet coke and mentos experiment. Check out some of these videos to get great ideas for class or to use alongside your own material. One really cool one is the electric pickle which can also be found on you tube. This is where a pickle is connected to 120V and glows as the electricity passes through!

You tube for obvious reasons can’t be used in school but if you type in voobys to replace the word youtube in the address bar while you are watching the video you can then download and save all your useful videos for class! Make sure when saving you have .flv after the name otherwise it will not play in the flv player.

Eg. Electricpickle.flv

To download the flv player for free go to

Contains nice interactive applets including calculating current in a series/parallel circuit, transformer and resistor colour codes explained.

Integrate the new iphone touch into your capacitor lesson. Find out how it works on howstuff works.

This contains some nice videos of sound eg. Shattering a wine glass, using bubbles to show sound is a form of energy and cracking a whip. Not many electricity videos though!