Current Electricity - Electrical Circuits and Symbols - Middle School

This action-packed  lesson on circuits and symbols , is fully resourced and differentiated with 14 activities including  starter, plenary, exit ticket quiz plus  homeworks and 9  learning outcomes. 

Easy to follow instructions are given on the PowerPoint and worksheets so that the lesson practically runs itself.

The activities include literacy, group work, peer assessment, self-assessment, pupil response to assessment,  feedback to teacher on pupil learning via the exit ticket quiz and a practical.

This pack contains material for two hours lesson time in total to enable the teacher to select and totally bespoke their lesson according to pupil ability, time available for the topic and focus of departmental/school policy. Resources not used in the lesson can be additional homework or used for pre-examination revision.

 An easy to follow one-page flow chart lesson plan indicates where logical choices between resources can be made and indicates whether each activity includes literacy, oracy or AFL   .

Objective

* To know the symbols for a switch, a resistor, a lamp, a voltmeter, a battery and an ammeter.

* To be able to recognise series and parallel circuits.

* To be able to draw simple and complex series and parallel circuits from sketches and descriptions.

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1 zip file with:

* Animated 17 slide PowerPoint- includes exit ticket /plenary quiz

* Cut and stick

* Anticipation guide(starter and plenary)

* Flip It

* Taboo Cards

* Worksheet for practical

* Fact sheet

* Foldable

* Fact Share Worksheet

* Exit ticket template

* ABC card template

* 2 Differentiated homework/classwork worksheets

* Flow chart lesson plan

* PowerPoint with answers /detailed mark schemes for homework/classwork sheets-pupils of all abilities can self-assess or peer assess.