Michael Faraday Interactive Biography - Electricity and Magnetism - Grades 7-12
By Micah's Learning Resources
This interactive biography covers the life of Michael Faraday, the bookbinder's apprentice who became the leading experimental scientist of the Royal Institution and found that a changing magnetic field makes an electric current. Students read an illustrated life story, follow a two-track timeline that sets his life beside world events, find the places on a map, explore a connections web, read four primary sources and finish with a self-checking quiz, all in one file. What's inside: - An illustrated biography in 5 chapters, from a bookbinder's shop in Marylebone to the Royal Institution - A two-track timeline of 49 events: 33 from his life and 16 from the world around him - A map of 11 places: London, Paris, Milan, Florence and Geneva - A connections web of 20 people, works, ideas and places, including Humphry Davy, Jane Marcet, Oersted and Ampere - 4 primary-source readings from his Experimental Researches in Electricity, his laboratory diary and his letters, each with a note on the source and a reading question - A 15-question self-checking quiz with instant feedback What students do: - Read the life story chapter by chapter and open each picture full size - Hover or tap timeline events to read what happened and when - Click places on the map and people in the connections web to read how each one fits the story - Read the sources closely and answer the reading questions - Check what they learned with the quiz, which explains each answer What you download: One HTML file. Ope
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