Electricity

Week 9, Lesson 17 and 18

 Electricity around us
• Electricity is all around us.
• We can use it to make light or sound.
• We can use it to heat things up or cool things down.
• We can use it to make things move.

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 Which thing use electricity?

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 What do we make with the electricity ? Light,
movement, cold, heat, radio signal?
Cold
Light Light
Heat
Heat

Movement

Radio Light
signal Movement
Radio
signal Sound
Movement

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 Mains electricity

• Things that you plug in use mains electricity.

• Mains electricity is very powerful.
• It is made in power stations like this one.
• Can you see the wires?

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 Cell and battery
• A cell can store electricity .
• A cell called a battery when there is more than one cell put together.
• Cells are used for things that people carry like torches or mobile phones.

• There are many different types of cells

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 Is the electricity from mains or batteries?

Mains
Mains Mains
Mains
Mains

Mains

Batteries Batteries

Batteries Mains

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 Activity 5.1
• Look around our school.
• Which things use electricity?
• Draw some things that use cells and some things that use mains electricity.

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 New words
• Electricity: A type of energy that can be used to make things move, cold down
or heat up
• Mains electricity: Very powerful electricity that comes from a power station
and moves in wires to where it is needed.
• Cell: A device that stores small amounts of electricity
• Battery: Two or more cells put together.

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 Homework
• Activity book, page 25, exercise 5.1

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