Continue the Year 6 Science unit on electricity with this What is Voltage and How Does it Affect a Bulb? Investigation Lesson.

In this PowerPoint, pupils will recap key vocabulary linked to circuits and then learn about volts and voltage, with safety messages about handling electricity. They will reason how a higher voltage will impact known components. For their investigation, they will explore how changing the number of batteries affects a bulb in a circuit by creating a simple series circuit with one battery and one bulb, then changing the number of each component and recording how the bulb's brightness is impacted. They will draw circuits, applying learning from the previous lesson, and explore batteries.

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