Electrical Emergency

Building Blocks Students will gain:
– A general familiarity with circuits.
– Confidence that they can build their own circuits and understand how they work.

Curriculum Links Students will be working scientifically:
– Setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests, making systematic and careful observations.
– Identifying differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes using straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support their findings.

Electricity
– Identify common appliances that run on electricity
– Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers.
– 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.
– Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit.
– Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors.

Beyond the curriculum Students will have the opportunity to explore:
– The importance of electricity in modern life.
– The reliance on electricity for the operation and safety of airlines.