Summary
The Fixies — tiny helpers who live inside our machines — reveal how an electric kettle turns electricity into heat to boil water quickly. 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 an electric kettle turns electricity into heat to boil water quickly.
- How does the kettle make the water hot?
- How can you tell when water is boiling?
- Why do we have to be careful around a hot kettle?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: electricity, heat, energy, boil, steam.
Try it: Draw what happens to water as it heats up, from cool to bubbling and steaming.