The articles and the video, Energy Story, Conducting Solutions, and Hands-on Science with Squishy Circuits, can teach us many things about electricity. We use electricity every single day of our life. There are many things that make up electricity and how it can pass through materials. There are many purposes for each article/video. Only one purpose can be the most important purpose for each article/video.
The purpose of Energy Story is to teach us about atoms and the inside of an atom, which are the nucleus, protons, neutrons, and electrons. Energy Story also talks about wires and circuits, which they described as a fire fighter's bucket brigades, which, they described it that instead of passing the bucket, they pour the water into different …show more content…
There are two different types of dough that Ann Marie Thomas uses, a purple dough, which is has salt in it, and a white dough, which has sugar in it. Thomas demonstrates that dough can conduct electricity by splitting apart the purple dough, then sticking the negative and positive wires of the battery pack into each of the pieces of dough, and, lastly, sticking the LED light’s wires into the dough. When she does this, the LED light lights up. Thomas also pushes the dough together and apart. When she pushes it together, the LED light turns off. She grabs a bit of the white dough, which can't pass electricity very well, puts in the middle of the pieces of the purple dough, and pushes everything together. When Thomas places the LED light back into the two pieces of the purple dough, it lights up as well. The white dough stops the circuit in the middle, so it wouldn't let the electricity pass through.
The two articles and the video taught us most about electricity. The article Energy Story talks about atoms of electricity. The other article Conducting Solutions talks about different water samples, with different elements, can conduct electricity. The documentary Hands-on Science with Squishy Circuits talks about how dough can pass electricity through the dough. Each one of these examples can teach us about how electricity