It's Shocking - Electricity

1. Form - What is electricity?

1.1. something that gives power to other devices

1.2. It is almost everywhere

1.3. something that is used with batteries (not always.)

1.4. Technology

2. Connection - What uses electricity?

2.1. Digital Technology - Both at home and school

2.1.1. Fan & AC - It is put into the fan so it can have some charge.

2.1.2. Computers - The cables/wires suck into the device and then charge it with battery.

2.1.3. Lightbulbs - They are for the lights. They come through tubes and into the bulb.

2.1.4. iTouch - It also comes through the connecting wires and into the device.

2.1.5. Phones - The cables travels to the device and charges the battery when the charger is on.

2.1.6. iPad - It's the same thing with the phones.

3. Function - How does electricity work?

3.1. It works using cables which travels into other devices.

3.2. It also travels through circuits which also travels into other devices.

4. Electricity - At Home

4.1. Wii and Xbox - There is battery if you get batteries and put it into the remote.

4.2. Ovens - They get electricity when it is put on.

4.3. Cars, Trucks and Buses - They get electricity from the petrol.

4.4. Pan Friers - All of them don't run on electricity but some of them are charged underneath.

4.5. Vacuum - They can be used really little for more electricity.

4.6. Lights

4.7. Macs

5. Electricity - At School

5.1. Projector - It comes out from a pipe at the top.

5.2. Interactive Whiteboard - It gets electricity when the computer has electricity.

5.3. Lights

6. Route - How does electricity travel into our school (UWCSEA)?

6.1. It first goes into a room where electricity is put, then it goes into a room where transformers take care of where the cables go underground into another room which is called the switch room, and finally into the panel in school.

6.2. It goes through the cables/wires and travels in that specific circuit order.

7. What are the types of electricity?

7.1. Static - still electricity

7.2. Current - a kind of electricity that flows from place to place.

7.3. Electricity will not work if there is something that is not metal that is trying to connect the circuit. This is called an 'insulator'. Something that will work is a conductor.

8. How do you make a circuit?

8.1. You first get a wire, batteries, and the system you would like to use.

8.2. Then you add the batteries onto the wires, connecting them.

8.3. Finally, connect the system on. The lightbulb should light up. You are done.

9. Static Electricity

9.1. Static electricity can be made and used in many different ways.

9.2. You can shock each other. How do you do that? Two different ways. The first way is by using a Van de Graaff generator and then coming close to somebody and touching them. Well, not exactly touching them but almost touch them. You will then see a lightning bolt thing come out of your finger and the other person and maybe you, will get an electric shock.

9.3. The second way is by touching something metal very quickly and then retreating back a few steps. It might not work sometimes, but it works a lot with me.

9.4. How else can you create static electricity? You can rub a plastic rod on a piece of clothing and that will create static electricity.