Energy Story, Hands-On Science with Squishy Circuits, and Conducting Solutions all have one important similarity: they all explain how electricity works! These three sources explain very different things, but they always end up coming back to the main objective of electricity. Energy Story explained how atoms function, and how they, as a whole, are passed through circuits to create electricity. Conducting Solutions explains how liquid solutions including Ammonia and Vinegar are stronger together, and create a stronger conduction of electricity. Hands-On Science with Squishy Circuits visually shows how two batches of homemade play-dough, one made with salt, and the other with sugar can be made into circuits when used together. Energy Story uses visual representation to explain how atoms function, and then move further to explain how atoms …show more content…
In this video, AnnMarie Thomas shows how two different types of homemade playdough can help you change your students or children into circuit designers. You make on batch of playdough using salt, and then another substituting salt with sugar. First, you take a battery pack, and plug the two wires into two separate pieces of playdough containing salt, or the positive playdough. You can then stick a tiny LED light into the playdough, and it will light up, but when the two positive doughs are pushed together, you create a short in the circuits. This happens because the electricity wants to run through the two positive doughs, not one positive dough. To prevent this from happening, you take a piece of the sugary dough you made, or the negative dough, and place a clump of that in between to two positive doughs. However, the sugary dough is 150 times more resistant to electricity than the salty dough, due to the ions in the sodium chloride in the salty dough. The sugary dough then creates a barrier, successfully making a functioning
Moreover, the demonstration in the article “Energy Story” was, the example shown in the article of what an atom is made up of was very detailed it showed electrons spinning around the nucleus, of atoms, in the same way the moon spins around the earth. Furthermore, the demonstration in “Conducting Solutions” the experiment that the article wrote was astonishing. The articles experiment contained water and salt and it explained how when a table of salt in water would dissolve only because the solution conducts very well because the solution contains ions and the ions come from the table of salt. Nevertheless, the clip ““Hands-On Science with Squishy Circuits” experiment that was shown was she was showing with homemade playdough created an example on how to create a circuit through play dough. Ms. Thomas was also talking about how if you put two pieces of sugar dough it has one hundred and fifty times more resistance than the salt dough she used. If you put a piece of salt dough in the middle than that’s when the led would work because to resistance substances won’t make it work but the one that has less resistance
This video clip showed me two different objects and when you put them together they will make an LED light, light up. The purpose of this video was to show viewers some things the cause energy to happen between two or more objects at one time. The lady in this video named Annmarie Thomas, put two different types of homemade playdough together (one salty and the other sugary). She stated that the salty playdough can conduct energy and since the sugary dough does not, when you put them together they will conduct circuits but the dough causes more than just a light to light up it also cause a motor to spin around very fast in circles. This video was a great example on how energy could conduct
In this video it shows you how you can use the things that are something your children play with and are commonly bought things to create your own electricity. The lady in the video was using two types of playdough’s that she has made on her own. She made a salt dough, and also a dough including sugar rather than salt. When you put the two salt pieces’ together and a sugary piece in between, you can create electricity. The purpose of this video is to tell everyone about how you can conduct your own electricity and to explain how it can be used more simply than you think. It is not all about atoms and all of those substances. You can create electricity with what you have in your own house. She tested the playdough’s by putting an LED light in the salty pieces on the outside. If they touch the light will go out, but if you place a piece of sugary dough in between the two, you can leave the light on and it will stay on.
The play dough that has salt conducts electricity and play dough that has sugar has 150 time more resistance then the salt play dough and that when you put them together they create a circuit. If you put the play dough that has salt together I won’t turn the led
In the articles "Energy Story" and "Conducting Solutions", as well as the video, "Hands-On Science with Squishy Circuits", they all have similar purposes. The first article's purpose was to teach people how electricity and energy works. The second article informs people about how different solutions can create electric currents. In addition, the video's purpose was to persuade people to do hands on science with their children while teaching them how Play-Doh is a circuit. They all have different purposes, but they all have the same topic for their purposes, electricity.
An electric current exists when there is a net flow of charge through a given area. Electrons flow from the negatively charged region to the positively charged region. This is usually accomplished by using an electrical conductor which allows the electrons to pass freely through the material (Serway, et al. 709). This flow of electrons can generate heat when collisions between the molecules and electrons occur. These collisions then cause the molecules to break apart thus releasing heat. Some common examples of electrical energy are lightning, static electricity, and wiring outlets (Coleman, et al. 82). For the wildland firefighter, lightning is probably the
Both “conducting Solutions” and Energy Story both talk about electrons and how they power a source. An Electron is a subatomic particle with negative charge. Both of the articles talk about ions. Ions are an atom or molecule with net electric charge due to the loss or gain of one or more electrons. Some other similarities are the video gives examples on how can see electricity anywhere and in Energy Story it tells you in paragraph two, sentence one take a walk around your school, home or where ever you are and there will be things everywhere you
In the last article "Conducting Solutions" the main purpose is that it explains how different materials conduct electricity. In this passage, they describe an experiment with sugar and water. It says that when sugar is dissolved in water, the solution does not conduct electricity because there are no ions in the solution. It also describes experiments with vinegar and ammonia. It says that they work well as a mixture because the ammonia reacts with the acid in vinegar and hey form a lot of
The videos’ purpose was to show that things at your house can make electricity. The girl talking shows two pieces of homemade playdough, one with sugar and one with salt. She separates the salt play dough into two pieces and connects one LED one to each one so its connected to both. Then she says and shows that if you put the two pieces of salt playdough back together, the LED will turn off. After that she separates the two pieces again and puts a piece of sugar play dough in between them. However, the LED wires are still connected to the salt playdough. The articles purpose is different. Its purpose is to explain what atoms are made of, what atoms are needed to make electricity, and how atoms get other things like the electrons they
How much energy do chargers use when plugged in and not used? Well, that is called "vampire power". Is it worth the time to unplug it?
The title of this story leads the readers to various interpretations about the content. It is possible for some readers to expect that this story is about a remarkable historic event involving electricity, and some might think of a scientific explanation of electricity if they read the title literally. Even some others might believe that the word ‘electrical’ symbolizes something else.
One similarity is that all the sources are informative. "Energy Story", "Hands-on Science with Squishy Circuits", and "Conducting Solutions" all have facts that inform you about a topic. For example, "Energy Story" tells about the impact of electricity and how it works. "Hands-on Science with Squishy Circuits" informs you about how to make circuits out of play-doh. "Conducting Solutions" has information about solutions and their conductivity. All of those topics are informational sources.
When the new Southeast Polk High School opened they added many new energy saving products. This included installing geothermal heating under the high school cutting back on the cost of heating such a large building. Many new windows help save on energy used to light the building along with automatic lights that turn off after several minutes without movement. The new high school shows how easy it is to save money and help the environment. Renewable energy is good for all aspects of the U.S, providing jobs, economical growth, environmental cleanliness, and new research for improving energy efficiency. Therefore the United States should use renewable energy to benefit the economy and environment.
Consolidated has a few problems with their inventory control. They have a purchasing agent doing periodic checks of their inventory without reviewing their history and the demand. The lack of a computer inventory system is another problem that Consolidated must address. To design a system for consolidated the company needs to make some changes to its structure and organization.
Energy is a crucial necessity and with the ever increasing need for it and the high and fluctuating prices of oil, researchers are constantly coming up with newer and more sophisticated alternative sources of energy. However, energy comes at a cost, as it is either expensive or it possesses high health risks. This essay presents the concept of energy by discussing the two major types of energy, the various forms it could take, including renewable sources of energy, energy conservation and above all it talks about the safest and cleanest alternatives.