1. Electricity: Circuits Use your slates to answer the following questions.

2. Electricity: Circuits What is an atom? The smallest building block of life.

3. What are the three parts of an atom? Protons, neutrons, and electrons.

4. Electricity: Circuits Which of the three particles can move from one atom to another? Electrons

5. Electricity: Circuits What are the charges of the three particles? Electrons= negative (-) Protons= positive (+) Neutrons= neutral / none

6. Electricity: Circuits What kind of charges attract? Opposites.

7. Electricity: Circuits Name a material that would be a good conductor of electricity. Most metals such as iron and steel.

8. Electricity: Circuits Name a material that is used as an insulator. Plastic, rubber, glass, etc.

9. Electricity: Circuits What powers an electromagnet? A battery.

10. Electricity: Circuits The build up of electrons on an object is called what kind of electricity? Static electricity.

11. Electricity: Circuits Electricity that flows is called ____________ electricity. Current

12. Electricity: Circuits Draw me an example of a parallel circuit.

13. Electricity: Circuits A parallel circuit has how many paths? More than 1.

14. Electricity: Circuits Draw a series circuit.

15. Electricity: Circuits Draw an open series circuit. Draw a closed series circuit.