Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 12, Issue 1, Article 6 (Jun., 2011) Özlem ATEŞ and Ali ERYILMAZ Effectiveness of hands-on and minds-on activities on students’ achievement and attitudes towards physics Previous Contents

Appendix II

Appendix II: Simple Electric Circuit Activity

Purpose: The students should be able to build simple electric circuits and draw the corresponding diagrams. Materials: a battery, bulb and connecting wires

 Procedure:

1. Try to light the bulb by using a battery, bulb and connecting wires as shown in below.

2. Draw the diagrams of your circuits to the related boxes given below.

Diagrams that the bulb lights:

Diagrams that the bulb does not light:

3. According to you, which bulbs light in the diagrams given below?

4. Try to build each circuit above and explain which conditions are necessary to light a bulb.

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