Summary
The Fixies — tiny helpers who live inside our machines — reveal how a battery stores energy and pushes it through a circuit to power a device. A quick full episode (about 6 minutes) from the how-things-work cartoon, easy to drop into a science or STEM warm-up.
Viewer safety
All ages
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
This episode shows how a battery stores energy and pushes it through a circuit to power a device.
- What does a battery do inside a toy or flashlight?
- Why do batteries run out?
- What happens if you put a battery in backwards?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: battery, energy, circuit, power, charge.
Try it: Find three things at home that use batteries and list what each one does with that stored energy.