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About the Workshop
The Circuit Challenge introduces learners to electricity and how it is conducted.
The session starts with a brief look at the history of electricity, then though an interactive mini quiz learners identify the components of a circuit.
In small teams, learners race against each other to work through and build a series of increasingly difficult circuits that challenge their problem-solving and teamwork skills.
By the end of this activity students will be able to identify elements of a circuit, problems within an existing circuit, and have improved their own analytical and problem-solving skills.
We can deliver a drop-down day or aspirations week in your school!
This activity goes well with:
Student Learning
Curriculum links:
Design and Technology - Understand and use electrical systems in their products [for example, series circuits incorporating switches, bulbs, buzzers and motors]. Identify and solve their own design problems and understand how to reformulate problems given to them.
Science - Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers. Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery. Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit.
English – Following instructions, speaking, listening, sharing ideas and presenting
PSHE– Develop skills for future success.
Skills Builder Framework Links:
Listening
Problem solving
Teamwork
Aiming high
Logistics and Planning
Logistics and Planning:
The session is designed for 30 learners.
The Circuit Challenge requires a classroom space with a projector.
We ask that a teacher is always present throughout the activities, to support learner engagement and manage behaviour
Circuits Challenge
Workshops can be booked on their own and delivered on rotation throughout the day or delivered as part of a series of workshops,
where classes rotate between multiple activities.
Groups of approximately 30 learners
Keystage 2
45 - 90 minutes