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Energy Story Hands-On With Squishy Circuits

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In " Energy Story " it tells you about how electricity is made and how it works. It teaches learners about something they use in their everyday life. In " Conducting Solutions " it talks about atoms along with positive and negative charges. It teaches learner how it needs to have an equal amount of positive and negative ions to make it steady and balanced. In " Hands-On with Squishy Circuits " she shows you two different homemade Play-Doh that she made and how it can make energy. She made one batch of Play-Doh with salt and one with sugar. The one with salt has energy moving through it and if you put a led light in it the light with turn on and if you press them together it stops working. But when you put and piece of the Play-Doh made with …show more content…

To make electricity it needs to have an equal amount of positive and negative ions. If it does not have an equal amount of ions it will be unstable and not balanced. All matter is made up of atoms, and atoms are made up of smaller particles. The three main particles making up an atom are the proton, the neutron, and the electron.
In " Conducting Solutions" it tells you about energy moving through things. Pure water contains very few ions, so it does not conduct electricity very well. When table salt is dissolved in water, the solution conducts very well, because the solution contains ions. The ions come from table salt, whose chemical name is sodium chloride. Sodium chloride contains sodium ions, which have a positive charge, and chloride ions, which is have a negative charge. Because sodium chloride is made up of ions, it is called an ionic substance.
In the video " Hands-On Science with Squishy Circuits " she shows us how play-doh made with salt and play-doh made with sugar can conduct energy. If you break the salt play-doh into two pieces then put on led light on each side it will turn on, but when you push them back together it turns off. If you put a piece of the sugar play-doh in between the salt play-don and then connect the led light it will turn on again. This happens because energy flows through the salt play-doh and through the one made with

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