Some examples from ECLIPSE of what students have said relating to electricity:
Current only slows down at the resistor - by analogy with water flow
Electrons flowing through circuits come from batteries
Magnets are not much to do with electricity
Ohm’s law is that voltage divided by current equals the resistance
Resistance is current over voltage
something is being slowed down or is stopped going roundAmy suggests electrical resistance depends upon density
What are the bits of electricity, if the the speed of the electrons is actually really slow?
Electric current is like a smile?: an example of a student-generated simile from the ASCEND enrichment project.
This is just one of a wide range of science topics that learners have talked about in ECLIPSE projects.
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Dr Keith S Taber kst24@cam.ac.uk
University of Cambridge Faculty of Education
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