Seeing the Lightbulbs Turn On!

Thanks to a wonderful professional development provided by SRP, Miss Barber's class received some amazing materials to help us investigate electricity! We learned that the flow of electrons is called an electric current and that's the type of electricity that batteries produce. To demonstrate, we set up a battery on the floor with tape. Then the students stood on the wires in pairs of protons and electrons (+ and - stress balls) with a group of protons on the + side of the battery and a group of electrons on the - side of the battery. Finally we modeled the flow of electrons and showed how a battery "goes dead."

The next day, we created simple circuits, series circuits, and parallel circuits in groups. Thanks for helping us experience electricity, SRP!

Which circuit is a parallel circuit? Which is a series circuit?