{"id":1052,"date":"2009-07-31T12:07:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T19:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilearntechnology.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2009-07-31T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T19:08:32","slug":"the-blobz-guide-to-electric-circuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andythelwell.com\/blobz\/guide.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1054\" title=\"The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits\" src=\"http:\/\/ilearntechnology.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Picture-12-300x187.png\" alt=\"The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Picture-12-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Picture-12.png 761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #007cff; font-family: Arial-BoldMT,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; opacity: 1;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 1px;\">What it is:<\/span><\/span><span style=\"padding-right: 1px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andythelwell.com\/blobz\/guide.html\">The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits<\/a> is a fun, interactive website where individuals or groups of students can learn about circuits.\u00a0 There are 5 sections to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andythelwell.com\/blobz\/guide.html\">Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits<\/a>.\u00a0 Section 1 teaches students about what makes circuits work, section 2 teaches about conductors and insulators, section 3 teaches about switches, section 4 teaches about changing circuits, and section 5 teaches about circuit diagrams.\u00a0 Each section includes a teaching portion, an activity, and a quiz.\u00a0 If students answer all of the questions in the quiz correctly, they get a special bonus activity after they have completed each section.\u00a0 The &#8220;Blobz&#8221; characters explain each section with pictures, animations, and text.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #007cff; font-family: Arial-BoldMT,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; opacity: 1;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 1px;\">How to integrate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andythelwell.com\/blobz\/guide.html\">The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits<\/a> into the classroom: <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 1px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andythelwell.com\/blobz\/guide.html\">The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits<\/a> is a fun way to teach students about circuits, conductors, insulators, switches, and diagrams.\u00a0 Students could work on this website individually, in small groups as a center activity during an electric circuits unit, or as a whole class using an interactive whiteboard.\u00a0 The information section might be good to go through with the whole class for some guided practice and instruction.\u00a0 Students could complete the activities and quizzes individually or in small groups as a center after instruction.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #007cff; font-family: Arial-BoldMT,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; opacity: 1;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 1px;\">Tips:<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 1px;\"> This site is British so some of the vocabulary may be unfamiliar (for example a flashlight is called a torch).<\/span><\/span><span style=\"padding-right: 1px;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"padding-right: 1px;\"><strong>Leave a comment and tell us how you are using The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits\u00a0 in your classroom.<\/strong><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/expansion_embed.js\"><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/googleads.g.doubleclick.net\/pagead\/test_domain.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n google_protectAndRun(\"ads_core.google_render_ad\", google_handleError, google_render_ad);\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What it is: The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits is a fun, interactive website where individuals or groups of students can learn about circuits.\u00a0 There are 5 sections to the Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits.\u00a0 Section 1 teaches students about what makes circuits work, section 2 teaches about conductors and insulators, section 3 teaches about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,442,7,12,8,6],"tags":[1464,1688,1690,1463,1689,4703,1687],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-games","category-interactive-whiteboard","category-primary-elementary","category-science","category-secondary-elementary","category-websites","tag-circuits","tag-conductor","tag-electric-circuits","tag-electricity","tag-insulator","tag-science","tag-the-blobz-guide-to-electric-circuits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}