Electrical Circuit
Electricity and Magnetism

Kitset of the main ideas in the topic Electric Circuits

Teaching Guidance for 11-14 Supporting Physics Teaching

Electric circuits kitset
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Electrical Circuit
Electricity and Magnetism Supporting Physics Teaching

Final review: bringing together ideas about circ...

The final part of the electric circuits topic brings together all of the ideas introduced in the preceding episodes to think...

Physics Narrative 11-14

Electrical Circuit
Electricity and Magnetism Supporting Physics Teaching

What gets used up?

The incorrect idea here is that the current after the bulb is less than the current before the bulb, because some of the...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

Electrical Circuit
Electricity and Magnetism Supporting Physics Teaching

Two useful phrases

Insist at all times on describing:

Teaching Guidance 11-14

Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Most students see the battery as the source of electrical effects in a circuit

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RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Some students hold a 'consumer-source' model of the simple circuit

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RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Many students cannot identify reliably when two different circuit diagrams are/are not showing the same circuit

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