Planning Map for Current Electricity (sixth grade)

 

Supporting Information

Misconceptions

Mastery Generalization

Copper wire
Plastic covering
Battery terminals
Bulb threads
Bulb bottom

Circular connection


Electricity goes through a bulb, conductor, and…

Conductor is

Nonconductor is

Switch opens and closes a circuit

Batteries in series cause

Batteries parallel cause

Bulbs in series cause

Bulbs in parallel cause

Resistance is

Energy transfered by the flow of electricity includes light, magnetism, heat, motion...

No relationship of receiver and source.

Source makes receiver work

Electricity flows like water from the source to the receiver

Electricity flows through the wire as a circuit with the receiver attached.

Energy is transfered as electricity flows through a conducting circuit, source, and receiver.

Dr. Robert Sweetland's Notes ©