Learning Objectives Suggested Learning Opportunities To elicit ideas about electricity and things that Explore - What is electricity? Things that use electricity. use electricity. Starter video hook - It encourages children to think about the items in a house that use To consider what sources of information, electricity. Heather is late for work so her friend Jason kindly offers to make her breakfast. How including first-hand experience and a range of many things does Jason use, or does Heather need, that require electricity to work? other sources, they will use to answer questions Discuss that batteries and mains electricity are the most widely used sources of electricity and that electricity can be dangerous so care needs to be taken. To know how to make a bulb light up. Elicitation and exploration task What do we already know about electrical circuits? Making – To construct a simple series electrical circuit, circuits! identifying and naming its basic parts, including To find out what children already know about circuits allow them to make a simple circuit. They cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers could try to then make the bulb light using the least amount of equipment To identify whether or not a lamp will light in a They could draw a circuit, label it and possibly explain what is happening to the ‘particles’ simple series circuit, based on whether or not the (electrons) in the circuit. lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery The children could then try to make motors spin and buzzers make a sound. To present scientific ideas and thinking about Give children a range of components e.g. bulbs, bulb holders, cells, battery holders (one – electrical circuits and equipment holding two cells constitutes a battery), wires and crocodile clips, buzzers, motors. In pairs they build a working circuit i.e. the bulb lights up, the motor turns or the buzzer sounds! The – children then draw their circuit and label the parts Challenge them to give the purpose of each component in the circuit. (Children draw the circuit as a pictorial representation, as they will be introduced to the conventional circuit symbols in Year 6.) To know which materials are electrical Exploring Which materials are conductors and insulators of electricity? – conductors and which are electrical insulators. To know how conductors and insulators are used in electrical components.
Learning Objectives Suggested Learning Opportunities To elicit ideas about electricity and things that use electricity. To consider what sources of information, including first-hand experience and a range of other sources, they will use to answer questions Explore - What is electricity? Things that use electricity. Starter video hook - It encourages children to think about the items in a house that use electricity. Heather is late for work so her friend Jason kindly offers to make her breakfast. How many things does Jason use, or does Heather need, that require electricity to work? Discuss that batteries and mains electricity are the most widely used sources of electricity and that electricity can be dangerous so care needs to be taken. To know how to make a bulb light up. To construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers To identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery To present scientific ideas and thinking about electrical circuits and equipment Elicitation and exploration task – What do we already know about electrical circuits? Making circuits! To find out what children already know about circuits allow them to make a simple circuit. They could try to then make the bulb light using the least amount of equipment They could draw a circuit, label it and possibly explain what is happening to the ‘particles’ (electrons) in the circuit. The children could then try to make motors spin and buzzers make a sound. Give children a range of components – e.g. bulbs, bulb holders, cells, battery holders (one holding two cells constitutes a battery), wires and crocodile clips, buzzers, motors. In pairs they build a working circuit – i.e. the bulb lights up, the motor turns or the buzzer sounds! The children then draw their circuit and label the parts Challenge them to give the purpose of each component in the circuit. (Children draw the circuit as a pictorial representation, as they will be introduced to the conventional circuit symbols in Year 6.) To know which materials are electrical conductors and which are electrical insulators. To know how conductors and insulators are used in electrical components. Exploring – Which materials are conductors and insulators of electricity?
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