We completed our Electricity unit review and will correct and submit this in class tomorrow. Students began work on identifying mechanisms and devices that use electricity around the home as the first topic in our new unit.
We completed our meter reading activity from last day and began a review of our Electricity and Magnetism unit. There will be a unit exam Friday, January 12.
We continued our discussion of energy consumption and efficiency in homes. Students learned how to read an electric meter and compared winter consumption of power to summer.
We continued our look into Kilowatt hours and electricity consumption in homes.
We began our examination of Kilowatt hours, the unit of measurement for metering and purchasing electricity in homes.
We completed our Electricity exam today.
We completed our review for tomorrows exam on electricity and electrical circuits. Students continued their work from our magnets lab completing their response questions.
We completed a brief review for our electricity quiz on Tuesday of next week before continuing with our lab and responses for magnetism.
We completed our magnetism lab activities today and finally got to experiment with the electromagnets in our kits. Magnetism was everywhere. We will have an electricity quiz next Tuesday after all the Christmas concert excitement is concluded.
We discussed the magnetism concepts covered in the film viewed in class and reviewed circuit diagrams and symbols. Students drew copies of the magnetic fields around a bar magnet and an electromagnet.
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