Learning Goals
Learning Goals:
- Students will be able to draw a simple circuit, label its parts, and show the direction/path that current is flowing.
Materials List
Handouts
- Solar Student Worksheet, Part 4: A Simple Circuit
- Solar Student Worksheet, Part 5: Circuit Discovery
Classroom Supplies
- 1.5 V Solar module (example)
- DC motor with a fan or small strip of paper attached to it (example)
- Document camera and projector
Important Links
Next Generation Science Standards
Next Generation Science Standards
- 4-PS3-2. Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
- 4-PS3-4. Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
- 3-5-ETS1-1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
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