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Using the State Curriculum: Science, Grade 4

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Lesson Seeds: The lesson seeds are ideas for the indicator/objective that can be used to build a lesson. Lesson seeds are not meant to be all-inclusive, nor are they substitutes for instruction.

Standard 5.0 Physics

Topic C. Electricity and Magnetism

Indicator 2. Investigate and provide evidence that electricity requires a closed loop in order to produce measurable effects.

Objective b. Investigate and describe (orally or with diagrams) how to light a light bulb or sound a buzzer given a battery, wires, and light bulb or buzzer.

Activity

Teacher gives each group or pair of students some wire, a battery, and a light bulb and asks the students to put the materials together to light the bulb. Students investigate until they are able to make a circuit. Once the group makes the circuit, lighting the light bulb, the students draw a diagram of the simple circuit. The same activity can be done with a buzzer instead of a light bulb.

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