The brainstorming sessions gave us a unique opportunity to discuss the upcoming experiment that we have to perform at the high school.

Initially, we thought about designing an experiment involving the law of conservation of energy. After much consideration, though, we revoked this idea. We set our goal to demonstrate the high school students the concepts of sustainability, energy, and conservation. Therefore, we decided to choose the topic that we thought should be the most the related to the theme of energy generation. We, then, had to ask ourselves what did we learn in our class and what was the most important experiment we had (besides Tom Vales’ demonstration)? Answering those questions, we concluded that by far the most interesting experiment we did in class was the generator experiment, which provided us the insight into the Faraday’s Law and how it is applied in the real world. It also helped us to understand where the inefficiencies arise from during the energy generation process.

Considering all the merits of the generator experiment, we decided to perform a similar experiment in the high school. To make the experiment even more demonstrative and informative, we modified it to include the galvanometer to show the students the invisible power of electricity. The galvanometer is also supposed to help the students comprehend the difference between AC (alternating current) and DC (direct current).

We designed the experiment so that the students understand the basic concepts of electricity and magnetism as well as sustainability and energy conservation. The questions, we put at the end of the experiment hand-out, should lead the students to the important conclusions about the current state of our environment and the ways it can be improved.

After deciding on the topic of the experiment, we started working on engineering and scientific parts of the experiment. We wrote the lab handout for the students and tried to make the procedure and background components as thorough and clear as possible. We, also, prepared the materials and outlined the presentation.