Project Informations

School Name: Sherwood Heights School
Team Size: 1 or 2
Grade Category: 4-6
ProjectType: Experimental
Subject Area: Physics/Astronomy
Language: English
Team Captain First Name: Julie
Team Captain Last Name: Kang
Special Skills Used: HTML
Awards Obtained: Honourable Mention for School Science Project

My project is called, "Light Up!" It's about an electric circuit. Circuits need to be complete for them to work properly. This means that the wires must go in a full loop around from the batteries and back again. If the circuits are not complete, they won't work. If you are using more than two batteries, you have to make sure that they are facing the same way. The positive side of a battery must be connected to the negative side of the next battery. The materials that allow electricity to travel through them are called conductors. And the materials that does not allow electricity to travel through them are called insulators. Materials like metal, steel, copper, iron, and gold are conductors, and glass, rubber, plastic are insulators. Some wire have a plastic coating around them. Copper is an conductor which carries the electricity, and plastic is insulator which stops the electricity from traveling to another objects that touch the wire. You can change the circuits by adding more batteries or light bulbs. If you add more batteries, the light bulb will glow brighter. Because the batteries will give the light bulbs more power. But if you add more light bulbs, the light bulbs will glow less brighter. Because many light bulbs will have to share the small amount of electricity. Back to home