Learning Intention: Investigate which materials are conductive.

Learning Tasks

1. Do Now: Glue in the hand out that Ms Garlick provides. For each of the following materials, predict if the material will be conductive which will be shown by the bulb lighting up. Then, check predictions are record your observations. ✔ = will light up. ✘ = will not light up. 

2. Working in your table groups of 4, test the different materials to see if it is conductive and will complete the circult. ✔ = did light up. ✘ = did not light up. 

3. Glue in the following bit of text and circle any words you don't know. Copy that list of words onto the piece of paper on your table. 

4. Using what you've learned from the reading and observed from your experiement, spend 10 minutes writing a paragraph explaining why wires are designed to have metal in the center and plastic on the outside. 

In your answer you should discuss the requirements to have a working circuit and what makes material electrically conductive. 

You can discuss ideas with your table mates, but each person needs to write their own individual answer.

5. These instructions are on Google Classroom for you to copy and paste into Chat GPT, then type up the paragraph you wrote in your books.

"Please give feedback grammer, clarity and depth expected for a 14-year-old to write on wire design (metal on the inside, plastic on the outside), which should discuss the requirements for a working circuit and what makes a material conductive. Here is my paragraph below, please give feedback on it.""

After Chat GPT analyzes your work, write down three things you can work on to improve your writing.

This lesson was used on Thursday, October 17th, 2024, Term 4 Week 1, which is when this page was late updated.