Electricity Assessment

Insulator or conductor?

• insulator

• conductor

What type of component is it?

• Switch

• Motor

• Bulb

• Microphone

• Buzzer

For each appliance, tick the appropriate box.

• Battery-

  Powered

• Battery

  or Mains

  Powered

• Mains

  Powered

• Non-

  electrical

  appliance

What should you do if you find some damaged or broken electrical equipment? Tick two boxes.

• tell an adult

• continue to use it

• put it back with the rest of the equipment

• do not use it

For each appliance, tick the appropriate box.

• Battery-

  Powered

• Battery

  or Mains

  Powered

• Mains

  Powered

• Non-

  electrical

  appliance

Insulator or conductor?

• insulator

• conductor

What is this a picture of, and what does it do?

• Microphone - makes voices louder

• Light bulb - lights up

• Buzzer - makes a noise

• Motor - moves

For each appliance, tick the appropriate box.

• Battery-

  Powered

• Battery

  or Mains

  Powered

• Mains

  Powered

• Non-

  electrical

  appliance

What do you think will happen?

• The bulb will not light up.

  The circuit is

  incomplete.

• The bulb will light up.

  The circuit is

  complete.

Mains electricity is...

• A piece of equipment or

  device designed to perform a

  particular job.

• Where appliances are connected

  with wires in a loop and

  electricity flows around in a

  single pathway.

• Electricity supplied through

  wires to a building.

• Electricity supplied through batteries into an appliance