>-----Original Message----- >From: Ted Rook [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 8:05 AM >To: < >Subject: electricity and water > > > >my 2c > >The audience are children. > >Children do not even know what electricity is. > >This would seem to require education in more than one topic if >it is to be understood by the children > >For example > >first: what is electricity? the difference between the wall >outlet, the car battery and the overhead power lines. > >second: how does electricity travel from place to place? the >concepts of conductors and insulators. > >third: why is electricity dangerous? electric shock, what is >it? is the body a conductor or an insulator? are some parts of >it are most sensitive to damage? > >fourth: why wet places and things are hazardous: water can >change things from insulators to conductors eg wood, paper, >cloth, skin. > >Good Luck > >Ted Rook >
Ted: All good points. You want to aim your pitch to 80% of the target audience. So, to provide some atypical guideposts, I got a skip loader and excavated some recollections of my early projects. When I was 4, my parents found that I was able to defeat child-proof power outlets. At 7, I knew batteries and motors worked better with copper wires than cotton strings. I was soldering at age 10. At 11, I was doing electroplating. At 12, I was building kits with tubes. And at 13, I learned about power dissipated in a load by measuring the DC resistance of a big flashbulb. YMMV! regards, Ed Ed Price [email protected] Electromagnetic Compatibility Lab Cubic Defense Systems San Diego, CA USA 858-505-2780 (Voice) 858-505-1583 (Fax) Military & Avionics EMC Is Our Specialty Shake-Bake-Shock - Metrology - Reliability Analysis ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
