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21 October 2020

Current Electricity - Voltage in Series and Parallel Circuits KS3

Current Electricity - Current in Series and Parallel Circuits KS3

Two action packed, fully resourced and differentiated lessons with 26 activities including starters, plenaries, exit ticket quiz plus homeworks and a total of 27 learning outcomes. Full, easy to follow instructions are given on the PowerPoint and worksheets so that the lesson practically runs itself. Activities include literacy, group work, peer assessment, self-assessment, pupil response to assessment, feedback to teacher on pupil learning via an exit ticket quiz and a practical. This material is suitable for schools using interactive notebooks with pupil fact sheets, cut and stick activities and foldables. This versatile pack contains enough material for a total four hours of lesson time as a wide range of activities has been included allowing selection according to pupil ability, time available for the topic and focus of departmental/school policy. Any resources not used could be additional homework or used for pre-examination revision. The lesson plans provided divide indicate where logical choices between resources can be made and the skills promoted in each activity.
Objective

To know how to draw circuit diagrams from a description
To be able to build circuits from circuit diagrams
To know the units for current and voltage and how to measure them.
To be able to work out the ammeter and voltmeter readings in series and parallel circuits (not Ohms Law)

Resources Provided

2 Animated 11 PowerPoints which include exit ticket /plenary quiz
2 Anticipation guide
2 Flip It
2 sets of Taboo Cards
2 Worksheets for practical
2 Fact sheets
2 Foldables
Fact Share Worksheets
Exit ticket template
ABC card template
5 Differentiated homework/classwork worksheets
2 one page flow chart lesson plan
2 PowerPoints with answers /detailed mark schemes for homework/classwork sheets-pupils of all abilities can self-assess or peer assess.