Grade: High School - 9

PI.8.9
Use a description or schematic diagram of an electrical circuit to calculate unknown values of current, voltage, or resistance in various components or branches of the circuit according to Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s junction rule, and Kirchhoff’s loop rule.

I Can Statements Academic Vocabulary
I can use a schematic diagram of an electrical circuit to calculate unknown current in various components according to Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s junction rule, and Kirchhoff’s loop rule.

I can use a schematic diagram of an electrical circuit to calculate unknown voltage in various components according to Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s junction rule, and Kirchhoff’s loop rule.

I can use a schematic diagram of an electrical circuit to calculate unknown resistance in various components according to Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s junction rule, and Kirchhoff’s loop rule.

Circuit
Current
Voltage
Resistance
Ohm’s law
Kirchhoff’s junction rule
Kirchhoff’s loop rule

Cross Cutting Concepts
Patterns
*Mathematical representations are needed to identify some patterns.

Cause & Effect
*Cause and effect relationships can be suggested and predicted for complex natural and human designed systems by examining what is known about smaller scale mechanisms within the system.

Science and Engineering Process Standards
SEPS 2: Developing and Using Models

SEPS 5: Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking

Looking Back Looking Ahead
Apply conservation of electric charge (i.e. Kirchhoff’s junction rule) to the comparison of electric current in various segments of an electrical circuit with a single battery and resistors in series and in, at most, one parallel branch and predict how those values would change if configurations of the circuit are changed. (PI.8.8) Explain and analyze simple arrangements of electrical components in series and parallel DC circuits in terms of current, resistance, voltage and power. Use Ohm’s and Kirchhoff’s laws to analyze DC circuits. (PII.5.5)