Watt... what.... get it? I know... bad pun! Anyways, here's what the GRADE 6s are learning in Science about Electricity! If you're a GRADE 5 parent, then click HERE for your post. We've spent our week checking out series and parallel circuits. Students will have a mini-quiz next week, so you can review the concepts below with your child to study at home, if you'd like!
In the beginning students were simply challenged to light the light bulb using the materials they had in their building kits (alligator clips, mini-bulbs, switches, batteries, etc.). From there, they took off testing theories:
Students also learned to troubleshoot if things went wrong. They would test things like switching out batteries, checking bulb and wire connections, replacing bulbs, or stripping a circuit back to basics and then adding other components back in to figure out where they went wrong. They also worked through a series of circuit building challenges in teams (ex: create a parallel circuit with two batteries and three lightbulbs, where one switch can shut off two of the bulbs). Students learned to draw circuits with standardized symbols so that they could communicate about their creations with others. Students are currently working on an individual challenge to create circuits according to a specific description. You can see a screenshot below of what students are working on. Here is an example of a completed circuit by a student. Studying at home?
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