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Electricity
The building blocks are sorted by grade band. What a building block builds on is on its own page.
21 of 39 building blocks practised
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Grade 5/6
- Simple circuit (an app practises it)
- Conductors and insulators (an app practises it)
- Voltage sources (gap, no app yet)
- Switches (an app practises it)
- Circuit symbols and diagrams (an app practises it)
- Series circuit (an app practises it)
- Parallel circuit (an app practises it)
- Heating effect of current (an app practises it)
- Lighting effect of current (an app practises it)
- Dangers of electricity (an app practises it)
- Electrical safety (an app practises it)
- Permanent magnets (gap, no app yet)
- Domain model of magnetism (gap, no app yet)
- Magnetic field lines (gap, no app yet)
- Earth’s magnetic field and compass (gap, no app yet)
Grade 7/8
Grade 9/10
- Electric charge (gap, no app yet)
- Electrostatic phenomena (gap, no app yet)
- Current as flow of charge (gap, no app yet)
- Electrical resistance (an app practises it)
- Resistance of a wire (an app practises it)
- Ohm’s law (an app practises it)
- Calculations with Ohm’s law (an app practises it)
- Current and voltage in series circuits (an app practises it)
- Current and voltage in parallel circuits (an app practises it)
- Total resistance (gap, no app yet)
- Electrical power (gap, no app yet)
- Electrical energy (gap, no app yet)
- Fuses in the home (gap, no app yet)
- Magnetic field of a coil (gap, no app yet)
- Electric motor (gap, no app yet)
- Electromagnetic induction (gap, no app yet)
- Generator (gap, no app yet)
- Transformer (gap, no app yet)
- Electricity supply (gap, no app yet)
Apps in this strand
Electricity 21 of 39 building blocks · Grade 5–10Build an app for this strand
An app stays in one strand. It starts with one building block and grows along the learning path with each new version, for example from grade 5 to 10.