TOPS #19 Electricity

36 Task Card Activities



This book begins with task cards that investigate the nature of like and unlike charges, establishing the reason why current flows through wire. Students then improvise bulb and battery holders, and build a variety of different switches. They'll configure them in parallel and series arrangements, using Ohm's law to predict how the current will flow. Your class will construct all manner of wonderful inventions: galvanometers, variable resistors, fuses, electroscopes, wet cells, storage cells, ammeters and more. They'll even split water and recombine the gases in a safe mini-explosion.