We began our unit on Electrical Circuits with a discussion of the things we know and questions we have about electricity. Then, today we tried to find the ways to light a bulb, only using 1 wire, 1 bulb, and 1 battery. The students were able to find one way to light the bulb and recorded the explanation with the illustration of the way that worked.
We learned that it worked when we put the bulb on the positive side of the battery (the tip touching the battery) and attached the wire at the bottom (negative) side of the battery and the other end of the wire was to the base of the lightbulb.
The battery, wire, and the bulb work together to make a circuit. There is a path for electricity to travel from one end of the battery back to the other end.
Tomorrow we will try to find more ways to light the bulb, using only the battery, wire, and bulb.
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