Circuit Solutions

There’s a heat wave, and the cooling fans of Hot Town Elementary School aren’t working very well. Is there a way to make the fans run better to keep the school cool? Through exploration and investigations with circuits, students in this workshop design a solution to wire the building more effectively to transfer energy from its source to fans throughout the school.

• DCIs: PS3.A: Definitions of Energy; PS3.B Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer
• SEPs: Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions; Developing and Using Models; Asking Questions
• CCCs: Cause and Effect; Energy and Matter

Groups of up to 32 students