Autumn 1
Electricity
Key Learning Question:
What is electricity? How can we use electricity?
Scientific Enquiry Focus: setting up practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests
Key skills children will learn:
Spend time exploring a range of games that use electricity, and materials needed to make a simple electrical circuit
Understand that electrical items in our homes are powered from mains electricity or batteries and identify some of these appliances and devices
Understand the dangers of electricity
Identify electrical materials and components required for a buzzer to sound or a bulb to light
Predict which materials will be good at conducting electricity using their knowledge of the world around them
Draw a scientific diagram of a circuit