Saturday, June 18, 2011

Resourcefulness - Electricity/Magnetism

3 comments:

shellfish said...

Some GREAT videos on youtube.

Building a lemon battery:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY9qcDCFeVI

Intro to electricity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJeAuQ7pkpc&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Tara in OH said...

I got 2 wonderful kits at Hobby Lobby - One is called "Electricity" and one is called "Magnetism." I was having trouble finding some of the things called for in the original KONOS volumes, such as a strip of copper or whatever. These kits were great in that they had all the little stuff in them - a switch, a flashlight bulb in the holder, copper wire, a little motor, bar magnets, etc etc etc. What a help to have it all there. They had simple little experiments that you can do for all the stuff - My kids loved it!

The kits were about $20 each, but I used the infamous 40% off one item coupons. They are also available at Radio Shack, I think. They are in a black box with the name of the kit in yellow letters.

Shannon said...

For pre-school - 4th grade level books, you can see our favorite books at http://www.squidoo.com/electricity-lesson-plan .