Teaching electricity in the science classroom

Switch on your secondary students with these KS3 and KS4 electricity resources including lessons, activities, practicals and revision worksheets

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Electricity Circuit Practical Activity and Resources to Teach Electricity in the Secondary Science Classroom

Switch on your students with these electricity resources

Electricity is one of the key units in physics and often one that requires students to work practically to understand circuits, components and currents. As it is a topic that is usually taught across all phases of secondary education, we have gathered together a selection of resources from lessons to activities and revision materials, which have been designed to aid your teaching of electricity in the science classroom.

Lessons

NEW AQA The Electric Motor GCSE Lesson
rolffantom

NEW AQA The Electric Motor GCSE Lesson

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A fully resourced lesson designed for the new AQA GCSE specification, from an experienced author. This lesson includes editable and PDF versions of: Power point presentation Worksheets with full sets of answers Technician s sheet (fully resourced and illustrated) A VLE version of t...
Electricity: Resistors Ohm's Law
BrainJar

Electricity: Resistors Ohm's Law

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**Complete No-Prep lesson** with **exam questions, tasks and answers** on Resistors and Ohm's Law (ohmic and non-ohmic conductors, filament lamps, diodes, LDRs and thermistors) for AQA GCSE (9-1) Science / Physics. This is the third lesson in the teaching sequence. This lesson covers all of AQA G...
Cost of Electricity - Power Lesson
jkrtaylor

Cost of Electricity - Power Lesson

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A complete lesson on power and the cost of electricity in a PowerPoint including: settler; starter; learning outcomes and keywords; how to calculate power and calculations for pupils; how to rearrange the formula to calculate energy and calculations for pupils to practice; and introduction and activ...
GCSE Electricity Revision
G L

GCSE Electricity Revision

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Enough content for 2 lessons including: * Starter on symbols and their units * Series and parallel circuits recap * Resistance of a wire recap * Filament lamp IV curve recap * Static charge recap * True/False quiz * Recap of all equations needed to memorise and a worksheet that tests ALL of the eq...

Practicals and activities

Electricity Circuit Building Activity
Saving The Teachers

Electricity Circuit Building Activity

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Teach your children about electricity through our Electricity Task Cards. This is a fantastic hands on activity that will teach your children to construct series and parallel circuits. They will love creating the circuits from the differentiated task cards. This can be done using electrical com...
Electrical Circuit Components and Symbols Activity
bethgrace2312

Electrical Circuit Components and Symbols Activity

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**Included in the resource:** * *15 circuit component information sheets (2 per A4 sheet)* Including component name, electrical circuit symbol and it's role in an electrical circuit. Examples: fuse, switch, bulb, diode, thermistor, resistor, battery etc . . . * *A student information collection ta...
Measuring current & voltage - electrical circuits
grahamcarden

Measuring current & voltage - electrical circuits

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A simple two page worksheet that I developed for my year 11 pupils. Could easily be used with year 10 pupils. Tests existing knowledge and allows pupils to investigate and form ideas about the rules for current and voltage in series and parallel circuits. Covers WJEC Physics 2 (Additional Scie...

Revision

AC, Plugs, Fuses, Electricity Equations
Mr_Rouge

AC, Plugs, Fuses, Electricity Equations

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A handout for study/revision use (AQA 9-1 GCSE). Two page document outlining the concept of alternating current; the interior of a plug, fuses and a list of all the equations needed for the electricity topic, including units and algebra symbols.
Electricity Equation Practice
tommydw

Electricity Equation Practice

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Major focus: Electricity Equation Practice - 9 questions. Equations are given, and the objective is to be able to correctly apply and rearrange equations using standard (SI) units and answering to the requested number of significant figures. In addition: Circuit symbols, and drawing Series and Para...
AQA Electricity Revision Placemat
Jt2887

AQA Electricity Revision Placemat

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A revision placemat for organising knowledge on the AQA Electricity topic for Combined Science. Short answer recap questions, matching up keywords and units and recalling equations to consolidate knowledge. Past exam questions included for application. Each area linked to the specification in subhea...