2. Lesson overview
2. Lesson overview
The lesson begins with the teacher introducing the science lesson objectives and reflecting back on previous science activities. She invites children’s involvement at the front of class modelling how an electrical circuit works. Miss Charnock then adopts some of the Bright Ideas Time activities. She poses the question, ‘What would be positive, minus and Interesting (PMI) about a world without electricity?’ She also asks the pupils, ‘Which is the odd one out, between a set of Christmas lights, a car and a mobile phone?’ She adopts the think, pair and share approach to organise the pupils to answer the questions. The children then engage in contributing to drawing diagrams of electrical circuits on the whiteboard for everyone to comment upon. The children are given trays of equipment to make their own circuits and answer questions (in envelopes), such as, ‘What happens to the brightness of a bulb if I increase or decrease the voltage of the battery in the circuit?’ The plenary discussion of the lesson involves the pupils sharing how they answered the questions they were given in the envelopes.
The lesson begins with the teacher introducing the science lesson objectives and reflecting back on previous science activities. She invites children’s involvement at the front of class modelling how an electrical circuit works. Miss Charnock then adopts some of the Bright Ideas Time activities. She poses the question, ‘What would be positive, minus and Interesting (PMI) about a world without electricity?’ She also asks the pupils, ‘Which is the odd one out, between a set of Christmas lights, a car and a mobile phone?’ She adopts the think, pair and share approach to organise the pupils to answer the questions. The children then engage in contributing to drawing diagrams of electrical circuits on the whiteboard for everyone to comment upon. The children are given trays of equipment to make their own circuits and answer questions (in envelopes), such as, ‘What happens to the brightness of a bulb if I increase or decrease the voltage of the battery in the circuit?’ The plenary discussion of the lesson involves the pupils sharing how they answered the questions they were given in the envelopes.
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