If different wires, an AA battery, and a mini light bulb create electricity then I think that the tiny light bulb will light up with all these working together because all these things have one thing in common, they all have electricity in them that can easily conduct electricity.

I researched how to conduct electricity by only using wires and an AA battery. All I need to do is put the red side of the insulated wire on the negative side of the AA battery, and the yellow side on the positive part of the battery. For copper wires it doesn’t matter, I just need each side touching the battery. These 3 wires, the light bulb holder, and the AA battery all have an energy called electricity. When we combine all of these electrical sources it produces more powerful electricity that will be able to make the mini light bulb light up.

For my manipulated/ dependent variables, one thing that will be tested is the brightness of the mini-light bulb. A thing I will change is the wires, there will be 3 different wires. For my responding/ independent variables, I think the bulb's brightness using the Copper, Insulated, and aluminum wires will be affected. I will measure the brightness with my eyes because most people have a device that can measure the brightness for them, but I will use my eyes. For my controlled variable the only thing I need to keep the same is the AA battery. AA batteries have more power and energy in them that will keep the bulb from fusing earlier than it is supposed to. 

1. Go in a 90%-95% dark room 
2. Put an AA battery on the table and put each end of the different wires on each end of the battery
3. Record my results and write them down

For the Aluminum wires, I observed that aluminum wires do not have enough current to provide for the bulb to create light, so that means that aluminum wires are really weak at conducting electricity. For Copper wires, I observed that the copper wires did light up but not as brightly as I expected. It lit up about 52%-55% of brightness. I also noticed that Copper wires have lots of current in them that will produce light in the bulb. Finally, for Insulated wires, I observed that with the red side of the insulated wire on the negative part, and the yellow side of the wire on the positive part of the AA battery the bulb lights up a lot. It was so bright when I was testing it and it was an amazing, and really bright thing to see.

I noticed that the mini-bulb did do the pattern that I was expecting, the pattern was brightest, to mid-bright, to not lit up at all. The battery worked perfectly with the copper and insulated wires. I think this happened because aluminum wires don’t have enough current or power to provide to the bulb. 

My question was can an AA battery, a light bulb holder, copper wires, insulated wires, and aluminum wires conduct electricity? The answer to my question is yes, it turns out these things can produce electricity just by working together and getting enough current to flow through the wires and light the bulb. My hypothesis was correct because these 5 things combined worked together and conducted electricity with enough current flow from everything included in the experiment.

My findings are useful because they can help many people with producing light. For example, the only things you have are copper and insulated wires, a bulb, and a battery, these things are great at working together to produce electricity. Some people it can benefit are electricians, households, and handymen. This can be useful to these people because electricians need to know this for their safety. Households need this to know about their safety as well, and handymen need to know about this also because of their safety so then they don’t get shocked or they don’t get current by randomly touching it. 

Yes, because it’s not as dangerous and it also creates really good light, which you can easily look at stuff in the dark with. My controlled variable did stay the same, although the AA battery didn’t make it fuse faster but it wasn’t long before it fused. In my controlled variable I thought that since the AA battery has lots more power than a AAA battery, it wouldn’t fuse faster, but it didn’t take long before it did.

Book 1: Organic Chemistry Science Fair Project By: Gardner, Robert Year: 2010

I would like to acknowledge my parents for helping me with this project. I have learned so much from them, and looking forward them to be teaching me more about conducting electricity.