a clean flat area to do the projects:
how you can transfer it to other forms of energy.
Let’s take a look at how we use energy.
Which of these appliances do you have?
out of the wall plugs in your house made?
To understand this,
let’s make a very simple generator.
need these:
onto the shaft
of the motor.
a hole in the stopper
with the push pin.
is called
a flywheel.
have an ADULT hold the rubber stopper against the spinning tire.
KEEP YOUR HANDS, HAIR AND CLOTHING AWAY FROM
THE SPINNING WHEEL!
as fast as
you can!
or light an LED with
your flywheel generator?
These two parts work
in only one direction.
Reverse the connections
if needed.
ONE part may not work,
regardless. WHY?
the propeller
turn the other way?
with the bicycle wheel.
to break open a motor to see what is inside.*
This is what you will see inside the motor.
coils of wire
wound around
the shaft
of the motor.
of wire are
surrounded by
two magnets
which create
a magnetic field.
you generate electrical current in the wire.”
to make the second motor spin!
creates electrical current in the wire!
on your own.
electrical current flows
through the wires in the
GRID to your HOME.
you use in your home comes from power plants that spin magnetic fields through coils of wire!
DELIVERS THIS ELECTRICITY
TO YOU
- to the grid
- to your wall plug!
of coils of wire
in a magnetic field
has provided
electricity to our homes..
a pinwheel --
you are making
a turbine spin!
to spin a magnetic field through coils of wire.
A turbine is a wheel or cylinder
with paddles around its outside.
is a turbine.
Assemble
the pinwheel in your kit.
