Complex Electrical Circuit Lab

Students test Ohm's and Kirchhoff's laws, solve combination circuits and overload a home circuit.

Grades 9–10Virtual lab · 5 stations1 student per deviceNo student loginsWorks offline

Try it free: the demo opens the Start page and Station 1 right in your browser. No sign-up needed.

Virtual labs are sold separately and aren’t part of the All-Access licenses.

Grade level

Grades 9–10: Quantitative circuits with Ohm's law graphs, Kirchhoff's laws, combination circuits and power

Ohm's law, series and parallel circuits, Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws, equivalent resistance, combination circuits, electric power

NGSS: HS-PS3-1 · HS-PS3-2 · HS-PS3-3

Open the game file in any web browser: Chromebooks, laptops or your smartboard. No accounts, no student logins and no internet needed once it's downloaded.
Each student types their name on the Start page, then works through the stations in order. Each station has a prediction, a hands-on activity, a data table or log that fills in as they work and a check question.
Students finish with a printable lab report (print or save as PDF). The Teacher Notes include the standards, a full answer key and a reset button for shared devices.
Each purchase includes the lab file and a one-page Quick Start guide.