Efficient Electricty

This unit, Power, in our STEAM class Urban Planning, we used circuit kits to learn about electricity, to calculate voltage, current, power, and resistance, understand the difference between AC and DC and parallel and series circuits. For a Field Experience, we visited Robot City Workshop, a company that helps people learn about robotics and inspires people to learn to code. For this Action Project, our goal was to design a parallel circuit with five resistors and two switches. One switch had to control the entire circuit, and the other had to control just one resistor. Then, we had to assign each resistor on our circuit a real-life resistor that would save energy, trying to create a model of the most efficient room we could. For example, instead of using a typical light bulb, we chose LED bulbs, because they are much more efficient. If you would like to see my partner MN's blog, click here.

Our Circuit, MDS and MN (2018)