All lesson PowerPoints and activities for year 9 (and indeed GCSE) electricity.
Student confusion over words like “charge”, “current” and even “electricity” (whatever that is) is common. Why not simply talk about the movement of electrons – even lower down the school in year 7? It is much easier for students to visualize a flow of particles carrying energy than it is to comprehend vague expressions like “flow of charge” or to understand current as a flow of water etc.
Make lots of small pieces of paper (about 1 cm x 5 cm). Arrange the students around the room in a large circle with you at one side (with the paper) and a lit Bunsen on the other (with plenty of mats surrounding it!). The students walk slowly round the room, collecting a piece of paper from you, setting light to the paper at the Bunsen (and placing on the mats) and returning to get more. Ask them in groups to try to identify the elements in the circuit (perhaps by sketching). You are the cell (use correct terminology here), they are electrons, the Bunsen is a lamp and the paper is energy.
Student confusion over words like “charge”, “current” and even “electricity” (whatever that is) is common. Why not simply talk about the movement of electrons – even lower down the school in year 7? It is much easier for students to visualize a flow of particles carrying energy than it is to comprehend vague expressions like “flow of charge” or to understand current as a flow of water etc.
Make lots of small pieces of paper (about 1 cm x 5 cm). Arrange the students around the room in a large circle with you at one side (with the paper) and a lit Bunsen on the other (with plenty of mats surrounding it!). The students walk slowly round the room, collecting a piece of paper from you, setting light to the paper at the Bunsen (and placing on the mats) and returning to get more. Ask them in groups to try to identify the elements in the circuit (perhaps by sketching). You are the cell (use correct terminology here), they are electrons, the Bunsen is a lamp and the paper is energy.
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