Electric Solutions

In my second unit of Urban Planning class, we visited the Museum of Science and Industry to gather and witness information on energy and electricity. We worked on Coulomb's Law of Attraction, and the Inverse Square Law. We researched the historical significance of electricity in the World's Fair, and the battle between Tesla's invention of alternating current versus Thomas Edison's direct current. After learning about Benjamin Franklin's famous experiments and what resistors, conductors, and insulators were, we dove into circuits. We distinguished series circuits versus parallel circuits and grew comfortable with the symbolic language. Our class's goal was to eventually build a circuit that would represent an electrical network that would power energy saving appliances in an energy saving house. I worked with a partner on this action project, and I present it to you now:

It can be said that there are movements in process to change the habits of everyday life for the sake of saving whatever can be saved. Electricity is one of those that has been incorporated into cars, and global-wise is spreading to those who need it. I can see with this class that the change is beginning to stick, and in every decade seems to exist a different world.