Electricity in Year 4

The children have been learning to:

• Identify common appliances that run on electricity
• Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers.
• Identify whether a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery
• Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether a lamp lights in a simple series circuit.
• Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors