Simple Circuits Lesson 1 Icon Causal Patterns in Simple Circuits
Lesson 1: What Configurations Work to Light a Bulb?

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Understanding Goals

Subject Matter

  • It is possible to light a bulb with just a wire and a battery.
  • Four configurations with one wire and a battery work to light the bulb.
  • We all have implicit models for what we think is going on when the bulb lights.

Causality

  • A Simple Linear Model does not explain how a simple circuit works.
  • It is important for us to unpack our own causal models for what makes the bulb light and to revise them as suggested by the evidence.


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