- Aerated Water
- Air Engine
- Air Table
- Are you Hot or Not?
- Balancing Act
- Bending Beams
- Block the gap
- Braille
- Bridge the Gap
- Chalk Wall
- Changing Faces
- Chaotic Motion
- Circle of Discovery
- Circle of Discovery- The Internet
- Circle of Discovery-Bridge Design
- Circle of Discovery-Ideas hub
- Circle of Discovery-Internet
- Circle of Discovery-Medicine
- Circle of Discovery-photography
- Circle of Discovery: Design - Earthquake
- Circulation
- Colour Wheel
- Communication Codes
- Communication Dishes
- Computer
- Crystallography
- Digestive System
- Down the Drain
- Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Fibre Optics
- Flight Simulator
- Gear Table
- Handshake Mirror
- Harmonograph
- High Flyer
- Hit the Target
- Horizontal Periscope
- Human Battery
- It's Electric
- Larger Than Life
- Lift Me Pull You
- Light Table
- Lock Box
- Making Waves
- Mini Harmonograph
- Mobile Phone
- Move It
- Nervous System
- Newtons Cradle
- Organ Pipe
- Organ Pipe Tune
- Oscillating Pendulums
- Pendulums
- People Power
- Periscope
- Prove Pythagoras
- Radar
- Radio Station
- Reactable
- Reflection Refraction
- Robot Arm
- Science of Sport
- Sensation
- Simple Camera
- Simple Circuits
- Smoke Tunnel
- Solar Energy
- Sound Waves
- Structures and Stresses
- Telescope
- The Exhibition
- The Eye
- The Lung and Chest Cavity
- The Wheel Race
- Thermal Imager
- Tornado
- Tower of Hanoi
- Universe Wall
- Up and Down
- Vertical Periscope
- Viscosity
- Viscosity Plungers
- Volume and Mass
- Vortex
- Watch Your Waste
- Weight Lifter
- Wheels Within Wheels
- Wind Tunnel
It's Electric
It's Electric demonstrates the composition of an electric cell.
Activity.... Do – Think - Learn
A battery (electric cell) converts chemical energy into electrical energy. The levers are connected to aluminium and copper.
What do you think will happen when you press the levers?
What do you need to do to make the radio or calculator work?
The pots contain water and vinegar.
The Science Bit
Different components, both liquids and solids can conduct or convert chemical energy into electrical energy.
This exhibit allows children to find out which components can do this. They can experiment with aluminium, copper, water and vinegar to see which combinations make the radio and calculator work
Curriculum Links
Grouping and Changing Materials
- That there is a range of materials with different characteristics
Using Electricity
- That everyday appliances use electricity, these include things that light up, heat up, produce sound and move
- That some devices use batteries which supply electricity; these can be handled safely
- That an electrical device will not work if there is no battery or if there is a break in the circuit
Characteristics of Materials
- That materials are suitable for making a particular object because of their properties and that some properties are more important than others when deciding what to use
Circuits and Conductors
- That some materials are better conductors of electricity than others
- How to find out which materials allow electricity to pass through them
- To use results to draw conclusions about which materials conduct electricity
- That metals are good conductors of electricity, most other materials are not
Last Modified: 28/07/2011
