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

This is a focussing activity, that shows the wide variety of things that fall in the children's everyday environment, and...

Classroom Activity 5-11

The purpose of this activity is to begin to ascribe changes in a fall to the forces acting on the object. The forces are...

Classroom Activity 5-11

Children often have a very local understanding of the word down . In this simple and short activity we invite them to consider...

Classroom Activity 5-11

Here you can explore how the idea of down varies as you move from one planet to another, from one planetary system to another...

Classroom Activity 5-11

The idea here is a bit subtle: we are working with the ideas that falling is simply a kind of motion, and that all motions are...

Classroom Activity 5-11

Same speed: changing speed. Here we revisit the walk-throughs of falling, with a careful emphasis on noticing the changing...

Classroom Activity 5-11

This is a compare and contrast activity. Compare the fall of the seeds that have evolved to fall slowly with those that have...

Classroom Activity 5-11