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ARCHIVED Year 5: Electrical systems: Electronic greetings cards

Exploring how circuits can be adapted to suit different purposes and using this knowledge to design an electronic greeting card.

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Lesson 1: Graphite circuits

The children explore making circuits using graphite as a conductor and draw circuit diagrams with symbols.

Lesson 2: Card design

Pupils design a greeting card with a working circuit, accurately labelling the positive and negative parts of the battery.

Lesson 3: Making the card

Pupils design a greeting card with a working circuit, accurately labelling the positive and negative parts of the battery.

Lesson 4: Adding the circuit

In this final lesson of the topic, pupils make functioning circuits and integrate them into their greetings cards

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