{"id":2211,"date":"2017-04-07T01:37:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T08:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2017-04-07T01:37:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T08:37:23","slug":"lesson-t-gem-and-simple-circuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/2017\/04\/07\/lesson-t-gem-and-simple-circuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson: T-Gem and Simple Circuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Objective: <\/u><\/strong>Students will be able to construct simple circuits, as well as identify the equipment needed to do so.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Materials: <\/u><\/strong>Computer lab, wires, light bulbs, batteries, switches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/en\/simulation\/circuit-construction-kit-dc\">https:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/en\/simulation\/circuit-construction-kit-dc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Class Activity:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students prior knowledge will be assessed informally through a class discussion. What di students know about circuits; can they give any examples.\u00a0 How do circuits behave.<\/li>\n<li>Have students create circuits using phet.<\/li>\n<li>Have students do the same process using the actual materials given to them.<\/li>\n<li>What happens when the switch is open? Closed?<\/li>\n<li>Try creating circuits with multiple switches and light bulbs.<\/li>\n<li>Have students create various circuits given varying numbers of switches and light bulbs.<\/li>\n<li>Extension: Explain to students the difference between a series circuit and a parallel circuit, have students create both and explain the difference to each other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objective: Students will be able to construct simple circuits, as well as identify the equipment needed to do so. Materials: Computer lab, wires, light bulbs, batteries, switches. https:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/en\/simulation\/circuit-construction-kit-dc Class Activity: Students prior knowledge will be assessed informally through a class discussion. What di students know about circuits; can they give any examples.\u00a0 How do circuits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-information-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}