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Unit 1 - Electricity All Around Us
Unit Overview
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In this first lesson you will first learn the basics of atomic particles. You will also get to use an online interactive to discover truths about subatomic forces(the forces inside an atom). We will also look at a real world example of these forces in action, and you will get to find an example yourself while answering a few questions along the way!
In this second lesson we will look at the basics of electricity in the simplest form: static electricity. Then we will provide some real world examples, and even some examples which you can build and test yourself to discover static electricity on your own. Then we will discuss what it means for a molecule to be polar and for an atom to be electronegative and how these terms lead to electric discharge.
These words may seem intimidating but in this lesson we will simply be looking at the feat that a material’s conductivity or resistance will affect its ability to conduct electricity. In this endeavor we will first look at what the two words mean and then some formulas used to calculate them. We will also look at resistors, a crucial component to every circuit do, and what the colors on top of each one mean. You will even get to color code one yourself.
In this lesson we start to go more in depth as to how electricity actually is used in our world: in circuits! We first discuss what it means for a circuit to exist and then we will go deeper into how the electrical power is produced by exploring electrical fields, electric potential, and lastly by looking at how these affect subatomic particles. The we will discuss the function and purpose of batteries in a circuit. At the end you will get to create your own model to represent the change of power in a battery, and look at a real 3D model of one.
The final lesson of the unit! Here we will look at the effects of electricity in our world today, and the work being done to redesign how our power is generated. We will look at the effects creating electrical power has on climate change, while also looking at how scientists are actively reconciling the issue with more modern renewable energy sources like the solar panel.