In this activity children can come to see the pervasiveness of electrical circuits everywhere in their lived in world. we...

Classroom Activity 5-11

In this activity children are asked to write an imaginative story in such a way that it helps them to see how much we have...

Classroom Activity 5-11

Children should identify complete loops in battery-powered devices and devise their own records of that loop, using their own...

Classroom Activity 5-11

This is a design and make activity through which you can explore the idea of a complete circuit with the children and help...

Classroom Activity 5-11

Here the aim is to introduce the idea that materials are better or worse for making electrical loops, and that we might...

Classroom Activity 5-11

Simple make or break switches complete or break single loops. Here children investigate the simple on-off switches, devising a...

Classroom Activity 5-11

Here, children construct a variety of circuits that all contain an on-off switch. The activity builds on their understanding...

Classroom Activity 5-11

Through working with physical loops, the children establish that when an extra bulb is added to a simple electric circuit, the...

Classroom Activity 5-11

When the battery is connected up to the bulb to make a complete circuit, there is an electric current everywhere in the...

Physics Narrative 5-11 11-14

Electric currents do not get used up. In a simple circuit with one battery and one bulb, the size of the electric current is...

Physics Narrative 5-11 11-14

Scientists agree to use a convention which shows the direction of the electric charge flow (the current) in a circuit as being...

Physics Narrative 5-11 11-14

There are three steps in this episode.

Physics Narrative 5-11 11-14