Students explore the fundamentals of electricity — current, voltage, and resistance — connected by Ohm’s law (V = IR), and learn how series and parallel circuits behave differently in the devices all around them.
Students will be able to…
Flip a switch and light floods the room instantly. What is actually flowing, what pushes it, and why does one broken bulb sometimes kill a whole string of lights but not others?
Project this and tap each idea. Have students connect current, voltage, resistance, Ohm’s law, and circuit types.
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Flip a switch — what actually flows, and what pushes it?
Students investigate.
Teacher explains.
Apply.
Three quick checks.
Aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (High School Physics) and Common Core literacy in science.
Provide evidence that electric currents create magnetic fields and vice versa.
Develop a model of forces between objects due to electric fields.
Design a device that converts electrical energy to another form.
Integrate quantitative information from graphs and diagrams.
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Have students calculate the total resistance and current in series and parallel circuits, and compare how each behaves. A printable circuits sheet is in the Science library.
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