I love studying about electricity. It's such a hands-on unit of study, and it's always full of surprises. Earlier in the year, we tested objects to see if they would be attracted to magnets. We were surprised to find that brass, aluminum, and copper objects were not attracted to magnets. This past week, we used that same bag of objects to ask the question - What objects are conductors or insulators? We were again surprised that brass, aluminum, and copper were conductors - even though they're not attracted to magnets. Based on our results, we inferred that all metals are conductors of electricity. Here's a few pictures from our exploration...
Alex and Bethany are recording the results of their experiment into their science notebooks.
Here is one group's objects sorted into conductors and insulators.
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