Day 03 - Electric Motor Concept

It's going to take me some work to incorporate your guiding questions into the lesson plans. In the meantime, we'll tackle a guiding question that I know to be relevant but do not expect you to have had on your lists: What is an electric motor and how does it work?

Electric motors are the inverse of electric generators; instead of converting motion into electricity, they convert electricity into motion. Today you're going to determine what all the required parts are for an electric motor so that tomorrow we can try building our own simplified version using a battery, a magnet, and some wire. I need you to take a half-sheet of blank paper and diagram an electric motor. Be sure to label all the essential parts. If there are any terms that are new to you, list them as possible vocabular terms along the side of the page.

Then go into your document from yesterday and create a section title Electric Motors. In that section, paste a picture or two of clear diagrams of electric motors, along with any vocabulary terms you came up with during your individual research.

electromagnetism

the physics invovled with the flow of electrons and their magnetic fields