This science scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and record how to build a range of electrical series circuits to control and manage devices and components for different functions and outputs. The class show how to use an electrical circuit to solve a problem.

Identify and record how to build a range of electrical series circuits to control and manage devices and components for different functions and outputs

Lesson One : Simple Circuits

Investigate, model and record some of the different ways of building simple electrical circuits to control a range of devices

Lesson Two : Insulators and Conductors

Identify, describe and compare different materials that have a high or low resistance to the flow of electricity when part of a circuit

Lesson Three : Circuit Switches

Explain and record how to build a circuit switch to use in an electrical device to solve a problem by constructing an alarm that will occur when a specific event occurs

Lesson Four : Using Switches

Explain and record how to build a circuit switch to use in an electrical device to solve a problem by constructing an alarm that will occur when a specific event occurs

Lesson Five : Changing Circuits

Investigate and illustrate some of the different ways of changing and controlling devices using electrical circuits for a range of specific functions

Lesson Six : Quiz Game

Practise using sets of series circuits to build and play a model quiz game that works using electricity to indicate the answers to each of the questions

Electricity Assessment

Assess abilities in identifying and recording how to build electrical series circuits to control and manage devices and components for different functions and outputs

  • Calculation Solutions

    Calculation Solutions

    Use standard written methods of addition and subtraction to check calculated sums using inverse operations and solve problems with multi-step solutions

  • Number Races

    Number Races

    Identify and practise how to use the correct standard written number calculations when adding and subtracting different pairs of four and five digit numbers

  • Family Party

    Family Party

    Explain and model how to use standard written addition and subtraction calculations to select items needed for a family celebration to match a specific money budget

  • Robot Factory

    Robot Factory

    Practise using standard written addition and subtraction calculations to solve different number word problems about products that could be made by robots in a factory