Year 4 Science - Electricity

A bundle I used during a 6 week teaching sequence on electricity in science.

Please note; you will need Notebook in order to access the main teaching slides. The slides demonstrate new learning, have the necessary links to web pages and explain how each task needs to be completed.

The documents (planning and activities) attached are word documents. Some of the images of these look a little odd - when they are downloaded, everything will go back into the correct place on the document.

Lesson/planning overview:
1 - learning what electricity is and identifying electrical & non-electrical items. Children can write/draw or cut and stick pictures and put these into a table.
2 - learning about electrical safety using a web link. They will then use this to make an electrical safety poster.
3 - using circuit equipment to make a simple circuit. This is purely a practical lesson.
4 - using circuit cards to predict if the circuit will/will not work and why. They will record these predictions down on the attached documents. Children will then test out their prediction using equipment.
5 - learning what insulators/conductors are and predicting which materials fit into which of these categories before testing it out. They will do this using a table provided.
6 - learning what a switch is and making their own switches out of everyday equipment e.g. bull dog clips, cardboard and split pins!

Most lessons have an extension.

My class LOVED this sequence and it was a great introduction for them into electricity.

Enjoy!