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Students explore the composition and practical application of parallel circuitry, compared to series circuitry. Students design and build parallel circuits and investigate their characteristics, and apply Ohm’s law.

Engineers have developed a very complicated circuit — called an integrated circuit — that combines thousands to millions of parallel and series circuits working together. One type of integrated circuit that works as a complete computation engine is a microprocessor, known as a central processing unit or a CPU. Microprocessors are essential in automobiles, video games, smoke detectors, DVD players, garage-door openers, cordless phones, clocks and calculators. Engineers continuously develop new techology so that they may use electricity to find solutions to everyday challenges — efforts that contribute to a healthier, happier, and safer environment. Distinguish between series and parallel parts of a circuit.Describe how current changes in a parallel circuit when a light bulb is removed from or added to the circuit.Describe the connections among representations of circuit symbols Recognize that electrical engineers, materials scientists/engineers, mechanical engineers, and physicists contribute to the development of electronic technologies. 50TeachEngineering.orgXochitl Zamora ThompsonSabre DurenDaria Kotys-SchwartzMalinda Schaefer ZarskeDenise CarlsonJanet YowellHewitt, Paul G. Conceptual Physics. 8th Edition. New York, NY: Addison Publishing Company, 1998.Kagan, Spencer. Cooperative Learning. Capistrano, CA: Kagan Cooperative Learning, 1994. (Source for Numbered Heads assessment activity.)Reid, T.R. The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution. New York, NY: Random House, 2001, pg. 309.S11416DAInternational_Technology_Education_Association-ITEA_STL_StandardsTechnologyC. Various relationships exist between technology and other fields of study.35S11417D7International_Technology_Education_Association-ITEA_STL_StandardsTechnologyD. Tools, machines, products, and systems use energy in order to do work.35S11424F4ColoradoScienceb. Show that electricity in circuits requires a complete loop through which current can pass 44S11424F5ColoradoSciencec. Describe the energy transformation that takes place in electrical circuits where light, heat, sound, and magnetic effects are produced 44S1142681ColoradoMatha. Use flexible and efficient methods of computing including standard algorithms to solve three- or four-digit by one-digit multiplication or division problems 44S11426E8ColoradoMathd. Find the unknown in simple equations44United StatesCopyright 2012 - Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, College of Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulderhttp://www.teachengineering.org/policy_ipp.phphttp://www.teachengineering.org/2011-01-104Teacher