Electricity

Vocabulary: pdf Macmillan

Audio 43. Introduction to electricity

Audio 44. Thomas Edison

Audio 45. Nikola Tesla

What is electricity

Audio 45. What is it?

• Electrical charges
• Forces between electrical charges
• Static electricity
• Current electricity

Electricity and inventions

Audio 46. Electricity and inventions

• Battery (Alessandro Volta)
• Electric induction (Michael Faraday)
• Light bulb (Thomas Edison)
• Telephone (Grahan Bell)
• Radio transmitter (Guglielmo Marconi)
• Television (John Logie Baird)
• Computer (Alan Turing)
• Mobile phone (Martin Cooper)

Useful resources

• Alessandro Volta y la batería: video youtube youtube (english)
• Cómo funciona una batería: video youtube
• Michael Faraday. Desde la electricidad a la generación de la electricidad: video youtube
• Michael Faraday: video EraseUnaVez
• Cumbres de las ciencias y la técnica: video youtube
• El teléfono (Alexander Graham Bell): video
• La bombilla eléctrica (Thomas Edison): video
• El radio transmisor (Guglielmo Marconi): video
• La televisión (John Logie Baird): video
• El ordenador (Alan Turing): video
• El teléfono móvil (Martin Cooper): video

Making an electric circuit

• Simple circuit for kids: video youtube
• Explaining an electrical circuit: video youtube

Saving energy

Audio 48 Saving energy

Objectives

1. Study and extend their knowledge of one of the fundamental types of energy: electricity.
2. Learn about the different properties of electricity.
3. Learn its practical applications: how we use electricity and how we apply this energy in everyday life.
4. Do simple experiments, in which the students can observe the characteristics of electricity.
5. Understand the nature of this type of energy.
6. Explain their conclusions, verbally and in writing, on how electricity functions.
7. Focus on the properties of electricity and how it is produced.
8. Look at its influence in the last 200 years and how we have become reliant on this type of energy today.