Electricity Learning Activity
Authoring, Researching, Reporting and other Work
Learning On-Line by Howard Taylor
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ELECTRICITY: Circuits, Batteries and Theory |
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| Nature's Version of Electricity | Ben Franklin's Experiment with Electricty | |
| Electricity:
Simple Circuits (for the Teacher) A Little Bit about Electricity |
| WHAT TO DO: 1. Watch the "Little Bit of About Electricity" movie.
2. Work the Vocabulary puzzle to help learn special electrical words. 3. Read the directions for the "Fruity Electricity Battery Project." 4. Make the fruity battery and observe the working of the battery. 5. Make a simple circuit with a switch. Do the "compass test" to see the effect of magnetism on a compass. 6. Using the simple circuit, test a variety of materials to see which are conductors or not. 6. As a class, or individually, construct an actual working telegraph system using the "telegraph" link for directions. |
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Electricity Vocabulary circuit a closed loop of conductors through which charges
can flow
conductor a substance through which electrical charges can easily flow current a flow of electrical charges generator a device for producing electrical current by moving a coil of wire in a magnetic field insulator a material through which electric charges cannot move ion an atom that has gained or lost one or more electrons and is thus a charged particle switch a device that closes or opens a circuit, thereby allowing or preventing current flow voltage the pressure behind the flow of electrons in a circuit |