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 Posted: 09/22/04 - 21:22 Post subject: Electric Circuits...
That's the first science unit I'll be teaching. 
I took a class on them today and learned how to make a switch...flashlight...and wire a scaled down house. All with batteries, wire and a lightbulb.
That's what I'll be doing with my students for the second quarter. I was apprehensive at first, but now that I've got my training!
HOW COOL!
We get kits to teach real science lessons and units!
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Posted: 09/22/04 - 21:23 Post subject:
Don't 'lectakoot yaself!
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Posted: 09/22/04 - 21:24 Post subject:
Cuff 'em if any of 'em refer to AC/DC as the band. 
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Noley
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Posted: 09/22/04 - 21:24 Post subject:
Ha!
I do have to stress to the kids the importance of NOT sticking wires into sockets to test whether things conduct energy.
I can't wait to see them make their flashlights. I bet they'll go home and take their real ones apart to see how they work.
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kobyj
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Posted: 09/22/04 - 21:26 Post subject:
| nolefan85 wrote: | Ha!
I do have to stress to the kids the importance of NOT sticking wires into sockets to test whether things conduct energy.
I can't wait to see them make their flashlights. I bet they'll go home and take their real ones apart to see how they work. |
What about a paper clip? I'll go test it right now to make sure it is safe for the students.
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Posted: 09/22/04 - 21:27 Post subject:
| nolefan85 wrote: | Ha!
I do have to stress to the kids the importance of NOT sticking wires into sockets to test whether things conduct energy.
I can't wait to see them make their flashlights. take their real ones apart to see how they work. |
 fun stuff.
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kobyj
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Posted: 09/22/04 - 21:29 Post subject:
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What about a paper clip? I'll go test it right now to make sure it is safe for the students. |
Ok. No issue with a paper clip. I didn't even get a tingle.
Oh wait. Switch was off. Lets try it again with the switch on.
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Posted: 09/22/04 - 21:30 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: |
fun stuff. |
It will be. I was very apprehensive going to class and left very excited. I know that the kids will love building and constructing things. The final project is to constuct a house out of a box and have light running through it. I guess they get to decorate it...etc... What a thrill. I used to hate to teach science, but this is plain fun!
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Posted: 09/22/04 - 21:30 Post subject:
Someone want to call 911 for koby?
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Posted: 09/22/04 - 21:40 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | | Someone want to call 911 for koby? |
Would be quite interesting since nobody on here knows exactly where I am.
911: What's your emergency
caller: A guy I know just got electricuted.
911: What's his condition
caller: I don't know.
911: What's his location?
caller: Somewhere in New Castle, Indiana.
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Posted: 09/23/04 - 13:15 Post subject: Re: Electric Circuits...
| nolefan85 wrote: |
I took a class on them today and learned how to make a switch...flashlight...and wire a scaled down house. All with batteries, wire and a lightbulb. |
When I was a kid I had a way cool flashlight/screwdriver my grandpappy gave me. It was a flashlight, and a screwdriver.
Lying in bed one night, I decided I knew all about electricity. Hey, I had a cool tool, right? So, I unscrewed the lightbulb from the bedside lamp b/c I was going to 'operate' on the lamp...
I stuck the screwdriver in the socket and started my work when, BLAM!! A very loud pop emitted from my lamp, my little flashlight went sailing out of my hand across the room, a breaker flipped, and my spiderman pillow caught on fire and started to smolder. (Not to mention my girlie-boy shriek.)
So hey, if you need any help.... 
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Posted: 09/23/04 - 13:38 Post subject:
Ya gonna have them build one of them crystal radio thingies?
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Posted: 09/23/04 - 13:41 Post subject:
NEAT-O!! You are going to have so much fun with that!!
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Posted: 09/23/04 - 14:03 Post subject:
I have blown so many fuses/circuit breakers when I was a kid, I am surprised I am still her today. Electricy can be fun thing.
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Posted: 09/23/04 - 14:07 Post subject:
| kobyj wrote: |
Ok. No issue with a paper clip. I didn't even get a tingle.
Oh wait. Switch was off. Lets try it again with the switch on. |
When my a/c went out, my uncle (a/c expert) convinced me to check the circuit with a paper clip. I was so scared I was gonna get electrocuted.
but I didn't.
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