exploring circuits with play dough

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Squishy Circuits: Exploring Electricity Squishy Circuit Recipes: http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/ More details: http://bit.ly/1U77Syh What I know so far about… Questions… New Ideas… Insulators Conductors Watts (Power) Volts (Voltage) Amps (Current) Ohms (Resistance) Atoms Electrons

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Handout for participants to record their thinking about electrical ideas, with suggestions about experiments to try

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Page 1: Exploring Circuits with Play Dough

SquishyCircuits:ExploringElectricity

Squishy Circuit Recipes: http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/

More details: http://bit.ly/1U77Syh

What I know so far about… Questions… New Ideas…

Insulators

Conductors

Watts (Power)

Volts (Voltage)

Amps (Current)

Ohms (Resistance)

Atoms

Electrons

Page 2: Exploring Circuits with Play Dough

What I know so far about… Questions… New Ideas…

What could happen when wires are longer/shorter?

What could happen when wires are

thicker/thinner?

Can insulating dough conduct?

Can conductive dough insulate?

Make the brightest light you can

Light the most lights you can

Measure the volts of things (leave the circuit as is)

Measure the ohms of things (remove any batteries)

Measure the amps of things (remove a wire and put

the meter in its place)