Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Overview -- Fitting Charging Ahead into Your Curriculum -- Organization -- Assessment Methods -- Special Considerations -- A Learning Map on Electricity and Magnetism -- What Is This Map? -- How Can I Use the Map? -- Are There Other Maps? -- Map, Assessment, and the Constructivist Process -- Guide to Relevant National Science Education Content Standards -- Sci Links -- Activity 1 -- Student Worksheet -- A Bonus from Electrical Flow-Magnetism -- Background -- Concept Goals -- Procedure -- A Left-hand Model -- Teacher's Guide To Activity 1 -- A Bonus from Electrical Flow-Magnetism -- What is happening? -- Time management -- Preparation -- Suggestions for further study -- Activity 2 -- Student Worksheet -- Coils and Electromagnets -- Background -- Concept Goals -- Procedure -- Summarize -- Teacher's Guide To Activity 2 -- Coils and Electromagnets -- What is happening? -- Time management -- Preparation -- Suggestions for further study -- TECHNOLOGICAL TIE- IN -- Mag - lev Trains and MRIs -- Activity 3 -- Student Worksheet -- Making an Electric Motor-Electromagnetism in Action -- Background -- Concept Goals -- Part 1 -Building a "Strobe" Light -- Part 2 - Building an Electric Motor -- Some notes and hints: -- How Real Electric Motors Work -- Teacher's Guide To Activity 3 -- What is happening? -- Time management -- Preparation -- Making the Rotor and Rotor Stands -- Making the Electromagnet -- Making the Penny Switch -- Making the Flopper -- Reminders and Trouble Shooting -- Suggestions for further study -- Activity 4 -- Student Worksheet -- Motion, Magnetism, and the Production of Electricity -- Background -- Concept Goals -- Procedure -- TECHNOLOGICAL TIE - IN -- Superconductors -- Teacher's Guide To Activity 4 -- Motion, Magnetism, and the Production of Electricity -- What is happening? -- Time management.

Preparation -- How to Make the Rotating Coil -- How to Make a Current Detector -- How to Make a Magnet Holder -- Suggestions for further study -- Glossary -- Circuit -- Closed Circuit -- Coil -- Conductor -- Current -- Electrical Resistance -- Electromagnetic Induction -- Electromagnetism -- Electrons -- Generator -- Interaction -- Mag - lev Trains -- Magnetic Field -- Magnetism -- Non - conductor -- Open Circuit -- Rotor -- Short Circuit -- Superconductors -- Voltage.