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Interactives Sandbox
  * http://scienceoftech.net/dev/ele/ExperimentalDesign.html
  * http://scienceoftech.net/dev/ele/FaradayLoop.html

Finished Interactives
  * http://www.scienceoftech.net/ele/power-strip.html


====Power Up!==== 
This was a great interactive from AAAS that asked students to select power plants to achieve a given amount of power, while limiting cost and environmental impact.  The numbers were deliberately messy, so there would be a need to scale up certain power generators to accurately compare with others.  In the original game, only wind and natural gas were complete single-source solutions.  Solar was very expensive and coal was very dirty.  The simulation has been removed from their site, and I have not been able to find the methodology they used to generate cost and environmental impact numbers.

I have code that mimics the original interactive, and would love to update the numbers to reflect improvements in technology over time.

====Power Strip====
Apollo 13
1:16 "You can't even run a vacuum cleaner on 12 Amps!"

===Essential Ideas===
  * Measurement: There are a variety of ways to measure electricity. (Volts, Amps, Watts)
  * Ohm's Law: 

===Core Concepts===
  - Producing Electrical Energy
    * Case Study: Generators
    * Case Study: Batteries
  - Energy Efficiency 
  - Voltage & Current
    * Ohm's Law
    * Case Study Parallel & Series
  - Power & Energy
    * Case Study: Power Tools
    * Case Study: Electric Bill
  - Alternating Current
    * Case Study: Fuses
    * Case Study: Electrocution

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