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Lesson Plan - Get It!

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Take a look all around you: so many things use electricity!

• Did the electricity ever go out at your house?
• Did it suddenly get dark and quiet?
• Did you try to turn on a light and forget that there was no power?

We use electricity for many, many things in our daily lives. So it can seem kind of strange when we don't have it.

But, when the electricity goes out in our house, we can still have power. That's because not everything that uses electricity has to be plugged into an outlet!

• Can you think of some examples?

• How do these battery-powered things work?

Batteries have chemicals inside them that can make electricity. They send it out, and it comes back to them in a path called a circuit.

Watch The Power of Circuits from SciShow Kids to learn more!

Let's join Dr. Z to see what else he can teach us about electricity!

Now that you know about battery power and circuits, continue on to the Got It? section to review what you learned!