Electrical Circuits and Switches

Categories: Key Stage 2, Science
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About Course

Build simple circuits with Juno the owl! Learn what electricity is used for, how to make a bulb light up with a complete loop, how switches turn things on and off, and which materials let electricity through. It follows the Year 4 electricity topic in the national curriculum for England, with safety tips all the way through.

Tutwoo Kids is independent and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the Department for Education, Ofqual or any exam board. This course follows the national curriculum for England and is for learning and practice; certificates are for encouragement and are not qualifications.

What Will You Learn?

  • Name the parts of a simple circuit: cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Explain why a bulb only lights in a complete loop Describe how a switch opens and closes a circuit Sort materials into electrical conductors and insulators

Course Content

Lessons with Juno

  • Electricity all around us
  • Building a simple circuit
  • Switches: on and off
  • Conductors and insulators

For grown-ups
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