Electricity production and use | 9–11 years

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Connect your curriculum teaching on electricity to engaging sustainability contexts. This topic web suggests classroom activities linked to sustainable sources of electricity and monitoring our electricity usage. 

Scientists are constantly making electricity production more sustainable, but we still need ways to use less electicity. This topic web contains sustainability context ideas and classroom activity suggestions for teaching electricity to 9-11 year olds. Explore how electicity is produced using a motor, or audit where electicity is used in your school.

Each web explains the background science, describes how scientists are working in this field, and suggests ways to explore this in the classroom.

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