Lesson 1 — Opening lesson

• Nask
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Science period 4

Electricity

This lesson

Learning goals

• You can explain what electricity is in your own words.
  
• You know what will be covered this period.
  
• You know what is expected of you.
  

Exercise

Write down your answers to the following questions:

• What do you already know about electricity?
  

• What is the role of electricity in your daily life?
  

• What is the role of electricity in society?
  

• How does electricity work?
  

What do you remember about atoms?

Link

Electrostatic phenomena

Electrostatic phenomena

Electrostatic phenomena

Charging and discharging

Exercise

Write down and answer the following questions:

• How does an object gain charge?

• When is an object positively charged?

• When is an object negatively charged?

• How do positive and negative charge interact with each other?

• What do the terms insulator and conductor mean?
  

• Know what is meant by electricity in informal terms.

• Be able to explain the electricity is a flow of charge. 

• Name the two types of charges and how they interact with each other. 

• Explain what is meant by an electric circuit, the basics of how it works. 

• Be able to draw the symbols of several well known electric components. 

• Explain what is meant by current, voltage and resistance in your own words.

• Describe the relationship between current, voltage and resistance.

• Explain what is meant by power and be able to do calculations on power. 

Period 4 – electricity – what we will cover

• §9.1 electrostatic phenomena
  
• §9.4 Electric circuits
  
• §9.5 Current
  
• §9.6 + §9.7 + §9.8 Electric circuits
  
• §9.9 Voltage
  
• Extra material about Resistance
  

What is expected of you?

• Study the paragraphs.
  
• Several homework assignments.
  
• There will be several worksheets again.
• We will do one or more practicals.
  
• There will be new two new formula's.
  
• The concepts of current, voltage and resistance can be quite difficult, ask questions if you don't understand something.

Learning goals

• You can explain what electricity is in your own words.
  
• You know what will be covered this period.
  
• You know what is expected of you.