Electricity and magnetism : stop faking it! finally understanding science so you can teach it

Shocked by static? Mixed up about magnets? Curious about currents? This book will help you get beyond memorizing electricity-related formulas, rules, and procedures so you can understand the topic at a deep level deep enough to teach it with confidence and comfort. By covering the basics of static electricity, current electricity, and magnetism, the book develops a scientific model showing that electricity and magnetism are really the same phenomenon in different forms. A bonus feature: access to interactive software that you can download from the NSTA Web site. The software will help you investigate electrical circuits from simple to complex without having to buy a lot of expensive materials (or risking electrocution!). Electricity and Magnetism is the fifth title in the award-winning NSTA Press Stop Faking It! Series. As author Bill Robertson writes, The book you have in your hands is not a textbook. It is, however, designed to help you get science at a level you never thought possible, and also to bring you to the point where tackling more traditional science resources won t be a terrifying, lump-in-your-throat, I-don t-think-I ll-survive experience. Robertson serves as your friendly guide, one with a comforting knack for anticipating fears, meeting information needs, and entertaining as he edifies. Shocked by static? Mixed up about magnets? Curious about currents? Teachers can get past memorizing all those electricity-related formulas, rules, and procedures so they can understand the subject at a level deep enough to teach it with confidence and comfort. Here to help is "Electricity and Magnetism," the fifth title in the award-winning NSTA Press Stop Faking It! series. By covering the basics of static electricity, current electricity, and magnetism, the book develops a scientific model showing that electricity and magnetism are really the same phenomenon in different forms. The book includes access to interactive software that readers can download from the NSTA web site to help them investigate electrical circuits--from simple to complex--without having to buy a lot of expensive materials. (Author Bill Robertson points out two advantages to the free download: "Electrocution is a remote possibility at best... and you get a genuinely cool piece of software that is just plain a fun toy.") Like all of the other lighthearted but scientifically accurate and best-selling Stop Faking It! books, "Electricity and Magnetism" was written specifically for science teachers, home-schoolers, and parents who want to help their kids with homework but lack the necessary scientific background. The book will serve as a friendly guide to electricity--one with a comforting knack for anticipating your fears, meeting information needs, and entertaining as it edifies