Integrated Science
Unit 3, Chapter 6
Unit Three: Electricity and Magnetism
Chapter 6 Electricity and Electric Circuits
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What is a Circuit?
6.2
Charge
Chapter 6 Learning Goals
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Build simple circuits.
Trace circuit paths.
Interpret the electric symbols for battery, bulb, wire, and switch.
Draw a circuit diagram of a real circuit.
Explain why electrical symbols and circuit diagrams are useful.
Explain how a switch works.
Identify open and closed circuits.
Charge pieces of tape and observe their interactions with an
electroscope.
Identify electric charge as the property of matter responsible for
electricity.
List the two forms of electric charge.
Describe the forces electric charges exert on each other.
Describe how lightning forms.
Chapter 6 Vocabulary Terms
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circuit diagram
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natural world
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closed circuit
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negative charge
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coulomb
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open circuit
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electric circuits
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positive charge
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electrically charged
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static electricity
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electric charge
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versorium
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electrically neutral
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electroscope
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electrical symbols
6.1 What is a circuit
Key Question:
What is an electric circuit?
*Read text section 6.1
AFTER Investigation 6.1
6.1 Why learn about electricity?
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We use it everyday.
(We have to pay for it!)
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It can be very powerful.
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It can be dangerous.
6.2 Charge
Key Question:
What is moving through
a circuit?
*Read text section 6.2
AFTER Investigation 6.2
6.2 Charge
 Electric
charge is a fundamental property
of matter.
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are two types of charge:
positive
negative
6.2 The electroscope
6.2 Using an electroscope to test an
unknown charge