Electricity Intro Grade 1 - 7. Differentiated. Lots of Assessment & Modelling. Card Sort. Info hunt.

This lesson is designed to be a guided intro (metacognition and modeling) to electricity so that students gain confidence on the practical skills before going into detail on electricity as a whole. This is aimed at KS4 but can be used at KS3.

This lesson will cover: circuit symbols; drawing circuits properly; and building circuits from diagrams and text. This can be done as one fast paced lesson or a two parter. For students grade 1-5. This lesson is a two parter and anything higher one lesson.

I have always found, of this lesson is completed well, teaching electricity is always slightly easier and student confidence with circuits is better.

The lesson comes with differentiated resources, card sorts and enough material for an information hunt (as an alternative to the card sort or as supporting material)

Objectives:

• I can state what some of the keywords are for the unit electricity.
• I can identify circuit symbols of components, describe what many do and draw simple circuit diagrams
• I can draw series and parallel circuits and build these circuits from circuit diagrams

Lesson structure.

1. Starter. Do it now style task.
2. Lesson intro.
3. Card sort or information hunt. (differentiated)
4. Modeling circuit diagrams. (metacogntion: Me (teacher), Us, you)
5. Building circuits (differentiated task)
6. Plenary