Electronic Discoveries

Austyn loves to play with his electrical board. Sometimes he experiments with each project in the accompanying book and sometimes he just messes around with it until he discovers something all on his own. Here he discovered that he didn't need a third battery. He grouped a bunch of electronic pieces together to fit in the place of a battery and the light came on. He thought at first that he made a battery. I corrected him and explained what was happening. I also showed him with a wire how to complete the connection. 

He then moved on to finding good electrical conductors. He tried water and many house hold items between wires to see if the light turns on. 

Making an Electromagnet

Austyn loves this kind of thing. We tried it a few weeks previous but the wires we had were too thick for it to work well enough.

Thanks to a new friend who was moving and donated a bunch of supplies, we got to try this again and it worked great! The book I used is all about communication (I can't seem to find the book to share the title and I'm wondering if Austyn stored it away in his room). We learned that electromagnet was important in the development of telephones.