Thinking about actions to take: Modelling Simple Electrical Loops

There's a good chance you could improve your teaching if you were to:

Try these

• thinking about electrical loops
• emphasising the simultaneous movement of charge, everywhere in the loop
• using model to mean a toolkit for thinking with that is capable of generating predictions
• reasoning about electrical loops as complete systems

Teacher Tip: Work through the Physics Narrative to find these lines of thinking worked out and then look in the Teaching Approaches for some examples of activities.

Avoid these

• not challenging imprecise language, reasoning, diagramming
• using sequential models, such as donation models
• electrical energy

Teacher Tip: These difficulties are distilled from: the research findings; the practice of well-connected teachers with expertise; issues intrinsic to representing the physics well.