About This Lesson
Students will build a spark gap transmitter which generates pulses of radio waves that can be detected with an AM radio receiver.
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Subject
Science — Earth and Space Science, Physics
Grade Level
Grades 9-12
Resource Type
Activity, Article, Handout, Lesson Plan, Worksheet
Attributes
Standards Alignment
Next Generation Science Standards
Resources
Files
Teacher Guide and Lesson Plan.pdf
Teacher Key to Making a Transmitter.pdf
Directed inquiry student page.pdf
Instructions for the Coherer Device Spanish.pdf
SWC lesson plan Spanish.pdf
Teacher Key to Making a Transmitter Spanish.pdf
Standards
Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that an electric current can produce a magnetic field and that a changing magnetic field can produce an electric current.
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