Mississippi Science P.4.6A.5
The Standard
- P.4.6A
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of the common sources and uses of heat and electric energy and the materials used to transfer heat and electricity.
Use informational text and technology resources to communicate technological breakthroughs made by historical figures in electricity (e.g., Alessandro Volta, Michael Faraday, Nicola Tesla, Thomas Edison, incandescent light bulbs, batteries, Light Emitting Diodes).
2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science · Motion, Forces, and Energy
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use a short text and a digital source to learn what an inventor made or improved. They explain how it changed the way people used electricity and share a detail from each source.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can match Volta with the battery and Edison with a practical incandescent light bulb. They can explain what each device did, using details from a text and a digital source.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students say Volta invented electricity, rather than a battery that supplied it. Others credit Edison with every kind of electric light, including LEDs.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short passage and a museum webpage screenshot about Volta. Ask: “What did Volta make, and how did it help people use electricity? Use one detail from each source.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Connect a flashlight bulb to a battery with clip wires, then label which part relates to Volta's work and which relates to Edison's.
Read a short Volta biography and a museum webpage, then write: “What did his battery let people do?”
Match cards showing Volta, Faraday, Tesla, and Edison to cards naming their breakthroughs and describing what each one did.
Compare watt and brightness ratings on incandescent and LED bulb packages, then discuss why a family might choose an LED.
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