Electricity CPD videos
CPD
for 11-14
14-16
16-19
Electrical circuits are essential in everyday life, but students often find them challenging. In these videos, we look at ways to make links between the microscopic charged particles and macroscopic observations, provide tips to trouble-shoot circuits and look at how to introduce the relationship between voltage, current and resistance.
Meet the presenters
(Left to right, IOP Coaches) Alan Denton, Carole Kenrick, Dan Cottle, Eleanor Wylie, Jessica Rowson, John Parsons, Mark Whalley, Niloufar Wijetunge, Terri Ghoneim.
- Charge and static (11-14)
- Using models to explain simple circuits (11-14)
- Exploring circuits practically (11-14)
- Storytelling: the people behind the physics (11-19)
- Factors that affect resistance (14-16)
- Circuit equipment and I-V graphs (14-16)
- Electricity Equations (14-16)
- Potential dividers (16-19)
- Internal resistance and EMF (16-19)
- Links to teaching resources
11-14
Charge and Static
Carole explains why it’s helpful to teach about charge and static before we teach simple circuits, and she demonstrates the use of visual representations for developing students’ understanding.
Using models to explain simple circuits
In this video Dan, Niloufar and Carole demonstrate a range of teaching models that can be used to help students understand simple circuits, and consider the benefits and limitations of each.
Exploring circuits practically
Eleanor and Jessica discuss the importance of practical work in circuit pedagogy and suggest some tips for purposeful practicals.
11-19
Storytelling: the people behind the physics
Carole shares fascinating stories about the people behind the physics we teach, demonstrating some historical experiments, and she highlights the importance of considering representation when we chose which physicists we teach students about.
14-16
Factors that affect resistance
Jessica looks at the factors that affect the resistance of a wire and discusses some practical setups for investigations in the classroom.
Circuit equipment and I-V graphs
Terri and John take you through the key issues in investigating I-V characteristics for resistors, filament lamps and diodes.
Electricity Equations
In this series of three combined mini-videos, Mark looks at some of the electricity equations and how they're related (0:00-16:49), a framework for challenging questions (16:50-24:18) and goes through some worked solutions (24:19-39:16).
16-19
Potential dividers
Alan shows a way of teaching potential dividers using mini-whiteboards that can help students to answer challenging qualitative questions.
Internal resistance and EMF
Alan looks at how we can calculate experimental values for EMF and Internal Resistances, and how students can understand the equation.
