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Spark your curiosity about the world of electricity with our Switched On downloadable resources.

Each lesson is designed to build knowledge of electricity, starting with the basics of electricity safety and sustainability, to building their own circuit using different components, before discovering the properties of conductors and insulators. The lessons contain educator notes, pupil worksheets, supporting slides and videos.

Overview

Learn about electricity, how to identify objects that use electricity, why it is important to save electricity and how to stay safe around electrical objects and using electricity.

Learning outcomes

Identify appliances that use batteries or mains electricity
Describe and demonstrate how to use electricity safely
Explain the importance of saving electricity, and ways to do this

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Classroom presentation

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Overview

Learn how to construct simple electrical circuits and how to draw simple circuits using electrical symbols.

Learning outcomes

Identify and name the basic parts of a simple circuit, including cells, wires, bulbs and buzzers
Explain what a circuit needs to be complete and for electricity to flow through it
Draw a simple circuit using electricity symbols

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Classroom presentation

Electrical circuit video

Electricity Symbols

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Overview

Learn more about simple circuits and what is needed to make them work, learn about the properties of conductors and insulators.

Learning outcomes

Explain how to 'fix' a broken circuit
Describe the properties of conductors and insultators
Identify the best materials to conduct electricity

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Classroom presentation

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Overview

Building on simple electrical circuits, explore switches and their effect and how to build switches. Also learn about parallel and series circuits.

Learning outcomes

Explain the effect and use of switches in an electrical circuit
Build our own switches using a variety of materials
Design and build something that uses an electrical circuit

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Classroom presentation

Electrical circuits video

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Electrical circuit videos

Introduction to electrical circuits from simple to series and parallel circuits.

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