Electricity

We want to know:
-if you cut a cord, will you get electrocuted
-if you can see electricty, not including lightning
-if electricity can get out of the battery and sneak downstairs and go into the cords
-if there is any kind of wood that uses electricity
-can electricity go through plants, does it keep plants alive?

How electricity works:
Livi
It starts with coal or wind or water. They grind up the coal. It goes through tubes and they put in a fire somewhere. It gets so hot it goes up tubes and goes into a spinner and spins fast, it gets transformed into electricity and it goes to our house. There are lots of cords in our house and it goes into our basement and works our whole house.

Ezra
Coal is first, next they grind it up. They burn up the coal and it turns into little specks of dust. Then it goes through a tube that is like a slide. After it's done it goes into cord and into our houses.

Survey
Great Room: 6 outlets, 0 appliances
Kitchen: 11 outlets, 6 appliances
Laundry Room: 1 outlets, 2 appliances
Rana's Bathroom: 1 outlets, 0 appliances
Loft: 6 outlets, 8 appliances
Hall: 1 outlet, 0 appliances
Boy's room: 4 outlets, 1 appliance
Livi's room: 4 outlets, 1 appliance
Duck bathroom: 1 outlet, 0 appliance
Master Bedroom: 5 outlets, 4 appliances
Master Bathroom: 2 outlets, 0 appliances
Office: 3 outlets, 3 appliances

Ezra
The kitchen had the most outlets. It does so we can use it a lot, you're supposed to use lots of things, so we can have food. Four rooms had 1 outlet they were, laundry room, Rana's bathroom, hall, and the duck bathroom. They had few because we don't plug much in the bathroom because it's a yucky place to call and do stuff. (I promise my bathrooms are clean, we have a 5 year old germ-a-phobe).

Outlets are important so we can use electricty for our cd player and stuff like that. It's important so we can use stuff.

Livi
Without electricity we would have to put our food in the wind to keep it cold. If we didn't have electricity for lights we'd have to use candles. If we didn't have a stove we'd have to put it in the sun for like ten days. We could use the fire to cook our food.

We went downstairs to see the circuit breaker box and followed the cords until we couldn't see them anymore.

Outlets
6, 11, 1, 1, 6, 1, 4, 1, 1, 5, 2, 3
41 outlets total, average of 3.5 outlets per room

Car Battery
Conveniently my car battery died this week. The kids got to see hot to jump start a car. We talked about the path and closed circuit.