Hands-on electricity: An active learning opportunity for high-school physics

This paper describes a STEM outreach program for 9-12 grade physics courses. The goal of the program is to provide students with hands-on technologically relevant learning activities for concepts in electricity and magnetism. The three parts of this program include providing schools with the appropriate technology, training the teachers, and developing relevant and sufficiently detailed lesson plans. This program began in the summer of 2011. Being at the beginning of a work in progress, very few results are available so this paper describes the program itself and some of the lesson plans.