How much work does it take to light a bulb?
Give your students the chance to experience electricity concepts for themselves.
The Teaching Challenge
How grounded are your students in their grasp of electricity and its important role in energy transfer? Electricity is all around us, and as a result often taken for granted. How do you move from the abstract to a full foundational understanding of electricity and its applications in your student's world?
This approach provides students meaningful, personal hands-on experience with electricity and electrical energy transfer--making abstract concepts concrete.
Includes 6 Investigations
- Voltage in a series circuit
- Voltage in a parallel circuit
- Charging and discharging a capacitor
- The relationship between voltage and current
- Generating Electricity
- Understanding Batteries
The PASCO Solution
Use the Introduction to Electricity Kit and your students become part of the experiment:
- Use hand-crank generators to power light bulbs in a circuit -- feel the extra work needed to power additional bulbs
- See in real time the voltage, current, and power they generate
- Charge and discharge a capacitor to understand the concept of electrical energy storage
Solution at a Glance
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Using the Hand-Crank Generator, students feel the difference in trying to power two light bulbs compared to one.
Monitor current, voltage and power.
Students see the results of their energy generation efforts in real time.
Hand Crank Generator
Series/Parallel Circuit
PASPORT Voltage/Current Sensor
Here's What You Need
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Kit includes 6 investigations plus all this
Intro to Electricity Kit (PS-2622) - $739
Connect concrete student experience to concepts with the Introduction to Electricity Kit by making your students part of the experiment.
Includes:
- Xplorer GLX (PS-2002)
- PASPORT Voltage-Current Sensor (PS-2115)
- Series/Parallel Circuit
- Hand Crank Generator
- Series/Parallel Battery Holders (10 pack)
- Red Patch Cords (5)
- Black Patch Cords (5)
- Alligator Clips (10)
- "D" Batteries (4)
- Capacitor (0.1 Farad)
- Detailed instructions
