Learning objectives

  • To explain how to be safe around electricity.
  • Science in action: To explore how scientific advances inform safety advice.

Success criteria

  • I can describe
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National curriculum

Science

Electricity

Pupils should be

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: Grouping electrical vocabulary and ask the children to discuss in pairs how they could group or organise the keywords. Encourage the children to give justification for their choices.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could use the Activity: Electrical safety advice (support) as a prompt sheet to help summarise what they have learnt about electrical safety throughout the unit; could cut and stick elements of the Activity: Electrical safety advice as part of their own advice sheet.

Pupils working at greater depth

Should rank multiple pieces of safety advice in order of importance, justifying why one might be more important than another.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: describing precautions for working

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Vocabulary definitions

  • hazard

    Something that is dangerous.

  • precaution

    Something that stops a bad thing from happening.

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