{"id":21863,"date":"2019-07-22T20:26:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T00:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=21863"},"modified":"2019-07-22T20:26:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T00:26:37","slug":"chapter-16-hands-on-experiment-2-what-conducts-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/chapter-16-hands-on-experiment-2-what-conducts-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 16. Hands on Experiment #2:\u00a0 What Conducts Electricity?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Time: 30\nMinutes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Materials:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>9V Battery<\/li><li>LED lights<\/li><li>Play Dough and\/or Alligator Clips<\/li><li>Objects to test: nickel, wire, chalk, wood, coin, copper, cotton, rubber duck, umbrella, anything you want!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Experiment<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Setup the circuit from the last experiment. Connect your 9V battery to wires so that an LED bulb lights up.<\/li><li>Open the circuit so there is a gap.<ul><li>If you only want to <strong>use play dough<\/strong> and copper wire add a third playdough piece. Connect the wire from the battery to this new piece. Now you will have a gap between the wire connecting the battery and the two playdough pieces connecting the LED light. <\/li><li>If you <strong>use alligator clips<\/strong> instead, one wire will connect a battery terminal to one LED terminal. Another wire will connect to the other battery terminal and nothing else. The third wire will connect to the other LED terminal and nothing else. You will clip these last two wires to the new objects.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Test each object by placing it in the gap you created in Step 2. <\/li><li>If the light bulb lights up, then your circuit is full of conductors.<\/li><li>If the lightbulb does not light up, then something in your circuit is stopping the flow of electrons. These materials are called insulators because they protect us from electricity.<\/li><li>Record what you see as \u201cObservations\u201d. Use your observation to decide whether the object is a \u201cConductor\u201d or \u201cInsulator\u201d.<\/li><li>Repeat Step 3 with all your materials while taking good notes of what you observe.\u00a0 <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step by Step Demonstration With Explained Vocabulary: <\/strong>Start\nwith an LED light. When you touch the plastic part of the LED light to the\nplaydough nothing will happen. But, if&nbsp;you touch the legs of the LED light\nto the playdough, the rest of the LED lights will shine. Why? The legs of the\nLED lights are made out of metal. Metal is a good CONDUCTOR of electricity.\nConductors are materials that allow the flow of electrons freely. A good\nconductor transfers electrons well. The reason why the plastic part of the LED\nlight did not cause the others lights to shine, because plastic is an\nINSULATOR. Insulators are materials that electrons do not flow freely, but\ninstead, are fixed in one place. A good insulator does not transfer electrons\nwell.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time: 30 Minutes Materials: 9V Battery LED lights Play Dough and\/or Alligator Clips Objects to test: nickel, wire, chalk, wood, coin, copper, cotton, rubber duck, umbrella, anything you want! Experiment Setup the circuit from the last experiment. Connect your 9V battery to wires so that an LED bulb lights up. Open the circuit so there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22793,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21863\/revisions\/22793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}