Lesson One – Groundhog Day Well it’s official…Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and according to folklore we are in for 6 more long weeks of winter. Yay! Earlier this week Phil, the groundhog, saw his shadow and by some weird turn of fate this fat groundhog in Pennsylvania has determined that we are not quite…
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Students, the Worldle above contains all the vocabulary words that we have covered to this point in our studies of electricity. Mr. McClung
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Series circuits explained Today my students took a further look at circuits. We focused on two different types of circuits, series and parallel. Today we discussed how these two circuits are built then my students spent sometime constructing their own circuits. The video above is from one of my students explaining a series circuit. Parallel…
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As we continue to talk about electrical currents, today we held a class lab to demonstrate the affects diameter and length of an electrical wire have on a current. To demonstrate this we used a balloon to simulate our voltage source, our rubber tubing served as our conductor (wire), and the air inside the balloon…
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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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The Arctic Monkeys are your band of the week. Arctic Monkeys are an English alternative rock band from High Green, a suburb of Sheffield, England. Formed in 2002, the band currently consists of Alex Turner (lead vocals, guitar), Jamie Cook (guitar), Nick O’Malley (bass guitar, backing vocals), Matt Helders (drums, backing vocals) and John Ashton…
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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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The video above is a review discussion with my Arkansas history students about early Arkansans. Mr. McClung
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Lesson One – It’s Snowing In The Mid-West You may be wondering why my lessons learned are being posted on Monday and not Friday as usual. Well I’ve been a little preoccupied…as you can see from the blurry picture above. With snow totals in Northwest Arkansas reaching anywhere from 5″ – 8″, we have not…
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