Introduction and objectives
Electricity is constantly present in our lives. Learning about it will allow you to understand how the circuits and appliances in your home work. In this unit you will gradually discover the physical causes of electricity, the laws that describe them, their practical and technical application and examples from our daily lives. In the main menu you can see the contents through which you will progress.
The objectives of this unit are to help you integrate these contents and develop learning strategies that help you do so. Next, read about them to be aware of your learning process and be able to apply them to other units and subjects:
Learn to learn
Throughout the unit you will be find guidelines that will help you ask yourself these questions and answer them:
1. What is my problem/task? What do I need to do? Identify what each task is about through the button that accompanies it (their meanings are explained in the user guide)
2. How can I do it? What is my plan? Follow the instructions in the guided problems to help you identify what each problem asks for and the steps you need to follow to solve it. Complete the activities designed to help you select, relate, and integrate information.
3. Am I following my plan? Self-observation and correction process in case of errors. It is VERY IMPORTANT that when you finish each activity you review the solution, mark your errors and correct them .
4. How did I do? When you do the assessment or self-assessment tests, take note of the difficulties you encountered, to reinforce the work on them.
Follow a gradual learning line
Don't rush. Don't let the TikTok effect take over you and quickly skim through the information. You are the master of your attention and you will learn to control it little by little. Read and do the activities slowly, a little each day, reviewing what you've already learned and going back when you need to, in order to understand new content that requires you to have internalized previous concepts.
Relate concepts
Try to follow the thread of the unit and relate the new information to your previous knowledge, from this subject or others. It is much easier to remember a photo of a puzzle in which we have fitted all the pieces together than a disorganized and meaningless image. Make the conceptual map of the unit, following the instructions given at the end of it.
Know yourself
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Find out what types of activities and strategies you feel most comfortable using to learn . As you grow and become more autonomous, this will help you design your own learning methods.
Be patient with yourself
Learning is a long process and requires effort. Some rewards take time to arrive and we don't see them at first. Simply focus on improving, whatever your starting point is, and enjoy feeling a little more capable, a little more autonomous, a little more free every day. That is the best reward, and the others will come on their own. Tomorrow, when you have to call an electrician to fix a fault and you understand what he is talking about, you will be glad.