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Teaching Electricity
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Objectives
• To consider models for teaching electricity• To explore some of the common misconceptions
about electricity• To begin to appreciate the importance of good
demonstrations• To get some hands on experience with the
equipment available in school for teaching electricity
• To be able to explain clearly how to carry out experiments
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What is in the National Curriculum?
• Use the documents for KS1/2/3/4 for the 2014 curriculum
• To what extent does it match Bruner’s idea of the spiral curriculum? Present your answer as a table or diagram.
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Models of Electric Circuit: The Bicycle Chain
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Models of Electric Circuit: The Water Mill
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Models of Electric Circuits: Jewels and Couriers
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Models of Electric Circuit: Conventional Model
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Four explanatory models
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Misconceptions continued
• Role of the battery – a constant current device
• Voltage = current = electricity = energy• Sequential model of the circuit – cannot
account for instantaneous lighting of a lamp
• Use of analogy – use multiple analogies• Drawings to diagrams – hard to recognise
circuits in practical situations
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Making simple circuits
1. What implications are there for teaching this to children?
2. What instructions would you give them?
Show that current is conserved
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Taken from ‘Teaching Secondary Physics’
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Other ideas about teaching sequences
• Consider teaching voltage before current• Consider teaching static electricity before
current
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Electricity Circus
1. Static electricity
2. Comparing resistors
3. Ohm’s law – current and voltage for a fixed resistance
4. Comparing the efficiency of motors
5. Crocodile Clips on laptop
• Would this be a demo or a class practical?
• If a demo, what types of things would you show/say to students?
• If a practical, what instructions would you give students?
• Any other comments about the activity?
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Electromagnetism
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National Curriculum Requirements
KS2
a) about the forces of attraction and repulsion between magnets, and about the forces of attraction between magnets and magnetic materials
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Right Hand grip rule
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Motor Effect
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Fleming’s Left Hand Rule
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References
• Chapman, C., Musker, R., Nicholson, D. and Sheehan, N. (2000) ‘Eureka!: Success in science Book 1’, Heinemann
• Hind, A., Leach, J., Lewis, J. and Scott, P. (date?) Teaching Science for Understanding: Electric Circuits, Centre for Studies in Science and Mathematics Education, The University of Leeds [Online document, accessed from http://www.education.leeds.ac.uk/research/cssme/ElecCircuitsScheme.pdf 13/10/11]
• Sang, D. (2000) ‘Teaching Secondary Physics’, Hodder Education• Osborne, R. and Freyberg (1985) ‘Learning in Science’, Heinemann
Educational• University of York Science Education Group and Nuffield
Curriculum Centre (2007) ‘Twenty-first Century Science GCSE’, Oxford University Press