Getting started with electrical circuits

Understanding electronic principles

Quality AssuredCategory:Design and technologyPublisher:Kitronik

These electronics resources from Kitronik help students to understand simple electronic components, identify circuit symbols, calculate resistance values, calculate capacitor values, understand how a potential divider works, understand components such as thermistors, light dependent resistors, logic gates, integrated circuits.

Episode 101: Introduction to Circuits

Quality AssuredCategory:Design and technologyPublisher:Institute of Physics (IOP)

These activities look at electrical circuits:

• how current flows in series and parallel circuits
• how the flow of current is affected by resistors
• setting up circuits and drawing circuit diagrams
• an introduction and demonstration on the use of multimeters.

Ohm's Law

Quality AssuredCategory:Design and technologyPublisher:PhET Interactive Simulations University of Colorado Boulder

This simulation demonstrates how Ohm's law relates to a simple circuit. The voltage and resistance can be adjusted to see how this affects the current. The sizes of the symbols in the equation change to match the circuit diagram.

Making Circuits

Quality AssuredCategory:Design and technologyPublisher:Best Evidence Science Teaching

These questions (presentations and worksheets) help develop understanding of the key concept of making circuits. Early questions test students understanding of circuit construction, electricity flow, different components. Later questions are more specific to the science curriculum, testing topics such as magnetism.