Round and Round

Students will diagram circuits within their journals. After journaling, the students will hypothesis:
What will happen if they add more batteries to the circuit?
What will happen if they take batteries away from the circuit?
What will happen if they add another light bulb?
How will they have to change their circuit and diagram to create a buzzer?
A Doorbell?

Students will then create those circuits and describe what they had to change when making their circuits from their diagrams, and how their hypothesis was different than what actually happened. Students will include graphs, written papers, notes, and visual aides within their final report.




Students will be assessed through their daily journaling, on the success rate of creating the different circuits and having the light bulb light, buzzer ring and how the hypothesis has been written and revised for the final presentation. Final presentation will be graded using a rubric that will be handed out to the students at the start of the project. The student will be responsible for giving an oral report in front of their peers explaining their successes, failures and reasons for these failures. They will be expected to have accurate test result, graphs supporting those results and a one page report that will discuss how they followed the scientific process and the results of all experiments.