A further important point to emphasise is that when additional resistance is introduced to a circuit in one place, the current...

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14

The key challenge of this episode is to lay the ground work for developing a model to reason about electric circuits, so that...

Teaching Guidance 5-11

The incorrect idea here is that the charges all originate in the battery and flow out from the battery to form the electric...

Teaching Guidance 5-11

It's possible that this kind of thinking is encouraged in children by donation models that suggest that everything comes from...

Teaching Guidance 5-11

The wrong tracks statement suggests the same incorrect idea from an earlier challenge that the charges all originate in the...

Teaching Guidance 5-11

You'll have to settle on a way of sharing a line of thinking about what goes on in electrical loops. We think that the rope...

Teaching Guidance 5-11

The fact that adding a second identical bulb in series results in the two bulbs being dimmer makes intuitive good sense to...

Teaching Guidance 5-11

Although commercially available, it is cheaper to make your own dough. Why not get your class to build a circuit out of...

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14