all picks
A good site for teaching about electricity and electricity safety. Areas for both 5-11 and 11-14 students.
A great idea to get students to test if equipment works.
Introduction to series circuits from schoolscience.co.uk and British Energy, with a quiz and an interactive exercise.
Ideas about circuits with an interactive circuit builder
A site to revise charge, symbols, current and voltage.
An animated interactive site building circuits.
The website of the Electrical Safety Council geared to teens
A site that revises charge and current.
A site that revises circuit symbols and diagrams
A site that revises series and parallel circuits.
A site that revises measuring current and voltage.
A site that revises current in series circuits.
A game that needs ciruit knowledge to solve it
An interactive activity involving making changes to a simple circuit involving conductors and insulators.
An interactive activity on circuits and conductors.
A fun activity to help children learn about electrical circuits and conductors. Includes a quiz.
Build and test your own circuits. Click to pick up a component, place it on a square and click to rotate it.
Electricity timeline - The main discoveries in electricity.
A blockbusters quiz about Electrical Circuits.
How dimmer switches work - both the original and modern ways - from Howstuffworks. Adverts are annoying but it's worth it.
Biography of Galvani from corrosion-doctors.org - an odd website dedicated to combating corrosion. However, the biographies seem correct and authoritative.
Detailed history of the invention of the electric cell (battery) with a timeline and a useful list of links
An interactive activity all about lightning.
A page explaining how fuses in cars work.
Revision information on electrical circuits and symbols. Includes and interactive activity and a test.
Instructions on how to make a lemon battery.
A simple electrical project to make a night light for your room.