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Electrical fun!

Science Year 4
This unit is part of Year 4 Science It's Electric

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Objectives

Challenge your knowledge and misconceptions about electricity by exploring a number of electrical games and devices.

Science Objectives
i) Identify common appliances that run on electricity.

ii) Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers.

Working Scientifically
 1. Ask relevant questions and use different types of scientific enquiries to answer them.

You Will Need

Provided Resources

  • Question pages (laminate if possible)

Additional Resources

  • Sticky notes
  • Resources for building electrical circuits
  • Remote-controlled toys
  • Games that use electricity
  • Plugs with a short bit of wire
  • Screwdrivers
  • Flipchart

Weblinks
What is electricity? from BBC Bitesize (note the typo in written definition; video is correct)

Instructions to build buzz wire game from http://sciencewithkids.com

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Explore electrical games and resources, identifying what they know and what they need to know about electricity.

Activities

  1. Spend time exploring a range of games that use electricity, and materials needed to make a simple electrical circuit.
  2. Consider what they already know about electricity.
  3. Understand that electrical items in our homes are powered from mains electricity or batteries and identify some of these appliances and devices.

Investigation - exploring
Explore electricity and understand what you already know.

Vocabulary
Electricity, circuit, switch, battery, plug, mains, appliance, device, wire, crocodile clip, bulb, buzzer, connection, power, cell

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