This week\u2019s lesson is all about wires and how they connect us.<\/span><\/p>\n .<\/p>\n All About Circuits<\/a> In order for the air conditioning in your school to work, electrical energy is needed. That energy can come from a variety of sources. Wires are connected to some type of power source \u2013 be it a battery or electrical outlet \u2013to make things work. Think of the things you use and the places you visit that rely on electricity to work. List these items and reflect on how electricity impacts our world.<\/span><\/p>\n All the places and items in the list above have wires. These wires are connected in a certain way to make electricity flow and make things work, as part of something called a circuit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s many factors you need to include when designing circuits.<\/span><\/p>\n In this week\u2019s activity, you\u2019ll create several circuits using free software.\u00a0DigiKey is a great resource<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The purpose of the activity is to play with circuit schematic\/drawing programs?\u00a0 There are many symbols to represent various components. The schematic (i.e., circuit drawing) represents these electrical components and how they are interconnected by wires.\u00a0 For the activity, play around with these schematic capture tools to create the following circuits (and some of your own designs):<\/span><\/p>\n – battery & lamp<\/span><\/p>\n – battery & switch & lamp<\/span><\/p>\n – battery & switch & dimmer (i.e., variable resistor\/ potentiometer) & lamp<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n It may seem farfetched, but you never know when you\u2019ll need to build a circuit \u2013 in school, during work or at home!<\/span><\/p>\n Take a look inside your BEST kit. In order for your robot to work, it needs an energy source to provide power. Take a look at the objects and tools in your kit and see if you could set up a circuit to power your robot. This activity is great for newcomers and veteran BEST competitors alike \u2013 everyone could use a refresher on how to wire the robot in order to make it move.<\/span><\/p>\n If you don\u2019t have a kit, go to the BEST website and review photos of the kit. What can you see that would support in the process of building a circuit? Can you see how things are wired?<\/span><\/p>\n Do you know how your house is wired, or where it gets its energy from? Draw a diagram showing where the source of the energy is located and how it gets passed through your house. <\/span><\/p>\n For example: There could be a hydroelectric plan that converts the water flow to electricity that then gets used by the homes in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy: create, explore, evaluate, generate, include, identify, list, observe, reflect, review, use, and write<\/p>\n Critical thinking, materials evaluation, reading comprehension, science, writing, researchWould you consider this type of getaway as living off the grid?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lets Get Wired If you were asked to drive from Austin to Dallas, or Houston to San Antonio, you would choose the right route for your trip, get in the car and drive. Our cities have built a grid of roads that allow us to get from one place to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[347],"tags":[124,125,126],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bestology-2019","tag-circuits","tag-electronic-components","tag-schematic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Resources<\/h2>\n
\nCircuit Building 101<\/a>
\nBEST resources<\/a>
\nScheme-it<\/a>
\nA Simple Guide to Electronic Components<\/a><\/p>\nResearch\/Reflect\/Brainstorm<\/h2>\n
Activity<\/h2>\n
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<\/b><\/i><\/u><\/sub><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\nBEST Connection<\/h2>\n
Community Connection<\/h2>\n
Bloom’s Taxonomy<\/h2>\n
Workforce Skills<\/h2>\n