NASA Earth-to-Orbit Engineering Design Challenges: Electrodynamic Propulsion.
Pending publication. A 2-3 week design challenge about electrodynamic propulsion.
Brief introduction to MagLev with links to other resources on this topic.
Electricity Misconceptions In K-6 Textbooks by William J. Beaty. Resource for teachers, addressing helpful and not-so-helpful ways in which “electricity” is described and demonstrated for students.
An accessible, simply written article introducing the idea of using tethers in space.
Description of the Pro-SEDS mission in the form of a NASA Science News article, Plugged Into Space.
Historical look at William Gilbert, later physician to Queen Elizabeth I of England and his pioneering study of magnetism that gave the first rational explanation to the ability of the compass needle to point north-south.