Year 3 have been learning about how electricity is made and the dangers to look out for in our homes. The children have now been introduced to a simple circuit and all used wires, a battery and bulb to make a complete circuit. We have experimented with adding more bulbs, batteries, motors, buzzers into our circuits and have discussed what we see.We are also getting used to very 'scientfic' words such as 'components' and 'cell' meaning 'battery source'. The children have also now come across the word 'conductor' and this week's homework is to find out the word which means ' doesn't allow electricity to pass through' .... beginning with I!
All this science work will help plan our DT topic which is to either design a torch or another object which involves a simple circuit. We start planning next week!
Finally, on Merlin, if the children click onto the pink flower photo I have put up an interesting electricity website which they can access with yourselves to extend their learning further. This will be changed weekly.
Thank you for your support, Mrs Mewett
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