Moving Electricity> Electric charges can move from place to place. When they do, they become electric current. The electricity running through your nerves is current. So is the electricity that zips along wires in your home.
Electricians control this current in order to put it to work. They make the charges speed up, slow down, stop, go, and more. Picture the charges in an electric current as a stream of moving cars. Electricians are like the people who create roads, signs, bridges, and traffic laws.
Roads are fast paths for cars to take. Wires are fast paths for electricity to take.
Traffic lights, the gates at railroad crossings, and drawbridges let cars stop and go. Electric <#5964,15><!switches> do the same for current.
Garages store cars until they travel out on the roads. <#5965,11><!Batteries> store charges until they travel through an electric circuit.
Speed bumps and potholes slow down traffic. Electric devices called <#5966,8><!resistors> slow down electric current.
