A spark for science

Sometimes you have to laugh.  Yesterday, Maestro's science experiment didn't want to work properly.  I tried to help him, but ended up not being much help at all.

That perplexed look of ... "but why?!"

Maestro's been learning about electrical circuits through Sonlight's Science 4 program, using the TOPS Electricity book.  I'm really liking these books.  There are cute little pictures and a good variety of experiments to understand the concepts.

For most of the time, we'd been doing very well ... but yesterday?!?! 

We were meant to be finding out the resistance of electrical flow through two types of wire.  For some reason, that bulb just wasn't going to light up, but we knew something did happen when Maestro could smell smoke, coming from the card on which the thinner wire was taped.

Just to show you, the light bulb was working perfectly fine on previous experiments.  The fuse hasn't blown, so we'll just have to come back and try again later. Maybe Papa can help solve this puzzle.