Electricity Sidebar Project

Find more videos like this on Mr. McClung’s Class As I’ve stated several times on this blog, right now we are currently studying electricity in my science classes. It just so happens that another teacher in our building is also focusing on electricity and performing daily projects that mirror what we have been doing in…

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Insulators v. Conductors

Caden & Gaddy explaining our lab activity from today. Today in class we continued our conversations about currents and creating circuits. Today we explored what type of materials serve as good conductors and what materials do serve as good insulators. Students were asked to create a circuit, much like the one from last week, then…

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Creating Electrical Circuits

Today I introduced electrical currents to my students. We discussed how that electrical currents are much different from static electricity in the fact that it is a continuous flow of energy…as oppose to the build up and sudden release of energy that static electricity shows. We also talked about electrical currents and how they power…

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Static Electricity

With our conversations about atoms and atomic modeling wrapped up, today we moved on to a new topic of study…electricity. We began today by talking about static electricity and discussing the principles behind it. Materials are made up of protons (positive) and electrons (negative) charges. Typically these two cancel each other out leaving us with…

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Fun With Dry Ice

Ninth grade has all the fun… Ms. Harris and her ninth grade physical science students spent a large part of their day playing with dry ice and creating dry ice bombs. While my students and I were not able to join in on the fun, Ms. Harris was kind enough to take our camera along…

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The Protestant Reformation

On Wednesday, we will be taking a look at the Protestant Reformation. The Reformation was a great time of change and this change would be one that would change the same of our culture as we know it. In this video, we will see how Martin Luther and his “95 Thesis” created an awakening of…

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