Once upon a time there lived a little boy named Charlie who lived in a dull grey castle in a town called Clooville.

He never really felt happy, until his favorite time of year where he got to make the castle all happy and bright with lights and color.

CHRISTMAS.

Once a year, Charlie got to go to the Christmas Shop and pick out a large green tree, and some colorful lights to decorate the dull grey castle.

This was going to be "the best year yet" he exclaimed.

Oh no! A broken light!

Smiling from cheek to cheek, there he saw the perfect Christmas tree, and the brightest lights.

But oh no...there was a broken light. He felt so sad to see a light out, that all he wanted to do was take it home and brighten it back up.

I'm going to fix it!

Charlie decides to take the bright lights, the Christmas tree, and the broken light home.

Charlie is determined to fix this poor broken light to shine bright once again.

After setting up the tree, and some bright little lights. Charlie is ready to fix his broken light bulb.

Now, first things first, what can we do to make this light shine bright?

Charlie decided to invite his friend Lucas over to help him figure out this problem.

Lucas was older than him, and had been to Physics camp, so he thought he could help him out.

Lucas examined the lightbulb, and a bright idea came to mind

So Charlie and Lucas set out to find some batteries and wires to save the broken light.

Charlie has no idea what is happening, and hopes that Lucas will explain it to him.

He's excited to save this broken light and restore brightness to his home for Christmas

We need batteries and some wire right now if we want to save this lightbulb!

We are going to take this battery, and two wires to light this lightbulb up!

Lucas takes a single battery, and two pieces of wire to create a circuit for the broken light bulb.

He explains to Charlie that a circuit is a "complete loop of conductors (or you can think of them as helping hands) that are hooked up to a power source such as the battery"

In order to make this light shine bright, it needs some power to help it shine.

Uh...Oh

Lucas tells Charlie: "I don't remember everything, so we're going to try some different types of circuits. The first one is called a "short circuit"

Lucas says, "I will put one of the wires at each end of the battery and connect them." But then, the battery got VERY hot, like it was on fire!

Charlie was frustrated and so was Lucas. Charlie couldn't understand what was happening. Charlie thought to himself, if the battery got hot why wasn't it giving off any energy?

Charlie felt like giving up, but then...he thought to himself.