{"id":645,"date":"2025-12-03T20:25:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary62526\/?p=645"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:25:25","slug":"conductors-and-insulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary62526\/2025\/12\/03\/conductors-and-insulators\/","title":{"rendered":"Conductors and Insulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Hutcheon came into class and helped us investigate conductors and insulators.\u00a0 Some materials let electricity move through them and some don\u2019t. If electricity can move through a material, it is called a conductor. If electricity can\u2019t move through, it is called an insulator. We used our Hot Wire circuit to test materials for conductivity.\u00a0 We predicted whether playdough, string, wire,blu tack and paper were conductors.\u00a0 Then we tested! Our predictions were fairly accurate.We used our communicating, collaborating, curiosity and sense-making meta-skills.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-647\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary62526\/uploads\/sites\/3629\/2025\/12\/03202252\/2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary62526\/uploads\/sites\/3629\/2025\/12\/03202252\/2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary62526\/uploads\/sites\/3629\/2025\/12\/03202252\/2.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-648\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary62526\/uploads\/sites\/3629\/2025\/12\/03202253\/3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary62526\/uploads\/sites\/3629\/2025\/12\/03202253\/3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary62526\/uploads\/sites\/3629\/2025\/12\/03202253\/3.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-649\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary62526\/uploads\/sites\/3629\/2025\/12\/03202255\/4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary62526\/uploads\/sites\/3629\/2025\/12\/03202255\/4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary62526\/uploads\/sites\/3629\/2025\/12\/03202255\/4.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-650\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary62526\/uploads\/sites\/3629\/2025\/12\/03202256\/5-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary62526\/uploads\/sites\/3629\/2025\/12\/03202256\/5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary62526\/uploads\/sites\/3629\/2025\/12\/03202256\/5.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Build your own games controller- using the makey makey kits and a selection of conductive materials + programming a game in scratch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Hutcheon came into class and helped us investigate conductors and insulators.\u00a0 Some materials let electricity move through them and some don\u2019t. If electricity can move through a material, it is called a conductor. If electricity can\u2019t move through, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary62526\/2025\/12\/03\/conductors-and-insulators\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary62526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary62526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary62526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary62526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary62526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary62526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary62526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary62526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary62526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary62526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}