ELECTRICITY (PHYSICS)

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Progression in Scientific

knowledge, concepts & skills

EYFS

(Early Learning Goals)

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

KS3

Concepts

Cause and effect

Energy

Working Scientifically

Children know about similarities and difference in relation to places, objects, materials and living things.

Children talk about features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another

Children make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur and talk about changes

Identify common appliances that run on electricity

Construct a simple series electrical circuit and name its basic parts

Identify whether a lamp will light based on whether the circuit is a complete loop

Recognise the function of a switch in a circuit

Identify common conductors and insulators

Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in a circuit

Compare and give reasons for how components function (brightness of bulbs, loudness of buzzers)

Know and use recognised circuit symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

Electric current, measured in amperes, in circuits, series and parallel circuits, currents add where branches meet and current as flow of charge

Potential difference, measured in volts, battery and bulb ratings; resistance, measured in ohms, as the ratio of potential difference (p.d.) to current

Differences in resistance between conducting and insulating components (quantitative)

Static electricity

Possible learning questions

Could we cope without electricity at home?

Could we live without electricity?

How has electricity changed the world?