This week in Science, Year 6 explored faults in circuits and how to repair them!

The children started the session by working together in teams to create human circuits, that would only allow the electrons (tennis balls) to flow when they were fully connected (feet to feet!). As we became more confident with this, we moved onto allocating the roles of electrical components to children within the circuit. As components were added to and removed from each circuit, the children showed how this affected the brightness of the bulbs (waving high or low), the volume of the buzzers (humming more/less loudly) and the speed of the motor (wriggling more/less vigorously).

Back in the classroom, the children completed their initial 'Emergency Electrician' training by identifying the faults in circuit diagrams, and then worked together to draw and test circuit diagrams using this app:

‪Circuit Construction Kit: DC - Virtual Lab‬ (colorado.edu)