In this unit, we are learning about electricity and how things lighted up. So in this case, we made a game about it. This game is worked by having one wire on one side while the other wire is where the questions are. As you can see, I have scrambled up the answers, so you have to connect the red wire to the question you're on (the left) and find the answer on the right and connect it in order to have a complete circuit. The picture on the left is the front, and the picture on the right is the back. Today, I'll be explaining how this works.
First off with just a brief summary of how you can make a complete circuit, you would need a voltage source (in this case, we're using a battery.) a conductor, (we're using aluminum foil as you can see in the picture on the right) a resistor, (we're using just plain old tape for this to make sure the path is making a full circuit.) and also, a path. When you have a complete path, that is when you have a complete circuit! How does that work though? Well, here's diagram that I drew:
This diagram is showing us how a normal circuit works. All you need is a lightbulb, battery(s), and some wires. In this case, we're connecting the wires with the battery and the lightbulb that's letting the electrons flow freely in the wires and also forcing electrons to go through the lightbulb in order 'travel' to the other wire. As the electrons flow through the lightbulb, it lights up! The game that I made was something similar, except, the aluminum foil is connected to the answers and questions.
THE GAME:
As I had explain on the top, the game basically works by having the red wire that's on the left and having the black wire on the right. Questions are on the left and answers are on the right. For each question, there's suppose to be a correct answer listed. When you find that answer, you put the black wire on the answer hole and the red wire on the question hole. If your light lights up, that means you got the answer right. Furthermore, that also means that you created a complete circuit. How? Well as you can see behind the game board, there's aluminum foil and tape behind. Aluminum foil is used like a wire to let electrons move freely and travel from one wire to either another wire or a lightbulb. In this case, I placed the aluminum foil to where the answer was and where the question is. So when you get the right answer, electrons can cross threw that path in order to light up. The reason why we used aluminum foil is because as studies were done, they thought that all kinds of metals, irons, or steels work the best. Though somethings that can't be used to let electrons move freely are plastic, wood, etc. These are called insulators. With insulators, your circuit is going to be incomplete. So, we used aluminum foil instead. You may be wondering, Why would it still work if you put aluminum foil on top of every single question? Won't it connect to each other? The answer to this questions is no because we used tape. Tape is our resistor here, meaning it's the one that protects the aluminum foil from affecting other aluminum foil lines. Tape is really important here because without tape, people can get the answers wrong but the light can still light up because it's all connected. With all these objects, it works because electrons started from the voltage source (battery) and goes threw the wires, into the alluminum foil with tape protecting it, and back out with wires and into the voltage source again. When that all happens, you finally have your circuit complete and a complete path!!!!!
