Support Your Child With Science by Pam Larkins

Author:Pam Larkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: school, learning, science, primary, biology, physics, chemistry, materials, class, help, children, child, home, schooling, reading, writing, words, education, teacher, teach, top of the class, preparing, pre school, pre, preparation, prepare, KS1, KS2, kindergarden, kindergarten
ISBN: 9781781662915
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2012
Published: 2012-05-23T00:00:00+00:00

Physical Processes

Electricity

Children will be taught that everyday appliances use electricity and how to keep themselves safe. The will learn about simple series circuits involving batteries, wires, bulbs and other components such as buzzers and motors. They will investigate how a switch can be used to break a circuit.

They will need to understand and use vocabulary such as: bulb, bulb holder, wire, buzzer, motor, connection, break, mains, plug, battery, cell.

Children can learn about electricity at home in a safe and controlled environment. Parents make children aware of potential dangers from an early age, identifying plugs, wires and switches and not touching things with wet hands.

They can identify appliances that use mains electricity or batteries and sort them into groups that light up, heat up, produce sounds or move. They should be able to say why they have put things into different groups. Children should also recognise that other things do not use electricity, for example a wind-up toy.

Explain to children that a battery is like a small store of electricity in most small devices such as torches and remote controls but can be a larger and more powerful store as in a car battery. Identify together ways that batteries might be dangerous. For example a small child could swallow one or it a battery was cut open the chemicals could harm someone.

Help your child to examine batteries and identify the + and - symbols. Show children how to put a battery into a device using the correct orientation. Look at a range of small appliances such as torches and watches and explain why a particular battery is used, for example a watch is very small so it uses a very small battery.

At school your child will learn to make working circuits by using bulbs and buzzers. You can help reinforce this at home by asking your child to take a torch apart and reassemble it correctly. If you want to reinforce your child’s understanding of circuits or learn more they could use the online activities at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/electricity. shtml

http://www.switchedonkids.org.uk/

http://www.ictgames.com/electricity.html

Forces and Motion

Children will find out about the movement of familiar things and describe what happens such as slowing down, speeding up, or changing direction. They will learn that something causes these things to happen, such as a push or a pull. They will learn that pushes and pulls are examples of forces.

Children need to understand and use the vocabulary of forces and motion, such as: force, push, pull, twist, spin, swing, swerve, hop, jump, turn, roll, squeeze, squash, shape, far, further, furthest, near, nearer, nearest, direction, distance, travel, safety, warning, safe, danger, taking care.

From an early age you can help children develop the understanding that a push or pull is an example of a force. Whether you are at home playing with toys, walking along the road or visiting a park there are lots of examples to us. ‘How can you get your toy car from the toy box to your toy garage without carrying it? Yes, you can push it.’ Can you make

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