This lesson contains 10 slides, with interactive quiz and text slides.
Lesson duration is: 90 min
Items in this lesson
An intro to electricity and circuit components
Slide 1 - Slide
Learning Outcomes
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Electricity
Slide 3 - Mind map
Electric Circuits
The simplest complete circuit is a piece of wire from one end of a battery to the other.
An electric current can flow in the wire from one end of the battery to the other, but nothing useful happens.
The wire just gets very hot and the battery loses stored internal energy – it ‘goes flat’ and stops working.
Slide 4 - Slide
Simplest complete circuit
Slide 5 - Slide
phet.colorado.edu
Slide 6 - Link
Electric Circuits
To do something useful with the electric current, we need to put an electrical component into the circuit (such as a lamp), that can use the current in a useful way.
Lesson duration is: 90 min
