This half term we’ve been learning about electricity. We started the unit thinking about how different appliances were powered and sorting appliances in different ways.
We then made a circuit with a cell, wires and a bulb and had great fun problem solving when some of the bulbs didn’t light.
As all super scientists do, we have lots of questions we wanted answers to! What happens if you use more cells?
What happens if you use more bulbs?
To help us to work scientifically to answer these questions, we created model circuits using this online tool: Circuits To say the children were excited would be an understatement!
We also experimented by adding switches and considering how the switch worked by ‘breaking’ the complete loop that the bulb needed for electricity to flow all the way round.
Help at home: explore the online tool Circuits and use it to answer some questions your child still has about the changes that happen when you change parts of the circuit.