Electricity

The Learning Through Science teachers’ guides and pupils’ assignment cards for the unit Electricity give suggestions for activities children could undertake. This pack is different from other units in that the 24 cards are divided into three sequences of eight cards and within two of these sequences, Basic circuits and Electromagnetism, the cards are in a numbered, sequential order. This is because it was considered by the authors that both of these sequences have a knowledge base that should be built up in a slow and ordered progression. However, the cards in the section Electrical projects do not need to be tackled in any set order. On the cards the grouping is denoted by a symbol.

The teachers’ guides occupy the first 32 pages of the file, followed by the 24 full-colour, highly illustrated pupils’ assignment cards.

Contents
(Basic circuits)
1. Will it light?
2. Bulbs/bulbholders
3. On/off
4. Short circuits and fuses
5. Circuit wise
6. Circuit trace
7. Will it pass?
8. Fault finding

(Electrical projects)
What will happen?
More than one
Cells and batteries
Make your own
Signalling
Alarms
Special switches
Dim/dimmer

(Electromagnetism)
1. The compass needle
2. Electrical detectors
3. Switched on magnets
4. How strong?
5. Bells and buzzers
6. Models to make
7. The Other way round
8. Electric motors

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