Approach: Station
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Focus:
Use a continuity tester
(linked battery and bulb) to test and decide which of 6 wires are connected. |
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104k |
Resources: Continuity
tester (linked battery and bulb with alligator clips), cardboard with 6 wires
sticking out. (blue and grey wires connected internally, red, cream and yellow
wires all connected internally) |
Questions / instructions:
In this activity you will
be finding out how the wires are connected inside the cardboard.
I tënei
mahi ka rapu koe i pëheatia te tühonohonoa o ngä waea i roto i
te papakäri. |
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%
responses |
GEd |
MI |
1. Check that everything
on the board is working by touching the 2 loose alligator clips together.
The bulb will go if everything
is working. If the bulb does not go, tell the teacher now.
Whakamätauria
mena kei te ora ngä mea katoa o te papa püaho [bulb board],
mä te whakapä i ngä rawhi kakati [alligator clips]
e rua.
Mena e ora
ana, ka kä mai te püaho. Ki te kore e kä mai te püaho, me
körerohia atu ki te kaiako inäianei. |
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Inside the cardboard some
of the wires are joined to other wires. Each wire might be joined to 1 other,
2 others, or no others.
Use the board with the battery
and bulb to find out which wires are connected.
I roto i
te papakäri [cardboard], kua tühonoa ëtahi
o ngä waea ki ëtahi atu. Tërä pea, ia waea kua honoa atu ki
tëtahi atu, e rua atu ränei, ki te kore noa iho ränei.
Whakamahia
te papa o te pühiko me te püaho, kia kitea ai ko ëhea waea e tühono
ana. |
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2. Draw lines on the diagram
below to show which wires are connected.
Tuhia
ngä rärangi ki te hoahoa [diagram] i raro iho
nei hei whakaatu ko ¨ëhea ngä waea e tühono ana.
Blue
kahurangi |
yellow
köwhai |
Red
whero |
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cream
kömä |
grey
kiwikiwi |
green
käkäriki |
Students saw labels
in either English or Mäori |
green
wire not connected to any other |
84 |
74 |
blue
and grey wires connected to each other only |
62 |
60 |
red,
yellow and cream wires all connected to each other and no others |
71 |
57 |
Commentary:
The small differences in performances between the GEd (General Education) and
MI (Mäori Immersion) students were not statistically significant. |