A My World and Textease support pack for KS2 Science with activities on most aspects of the Science curriculum relating to KS2 Electiricty and Power appropriate for this age group including constructing simple circuits, changing the components to make bulbs brighter or dimmer, series and parallel, circuit drawings, circuit diagrams and switches. The software also includes a secton on electricity production using fossil fuels, geothermic, nuclear, solar, wind, tidal and bio energy. Full documenatation and sample screen shot PDF files may be viewed by clicking the links below.

THE TITLE AND THE CURRICULUM:

This title supports many of the National Curriculum requirements for Key Stage 2 relating to ELECTRICITY. Some aspects of the KS3 syllabus have been included to enable gifted and talented pupils to make further progress. A further section on electricity production has been included to support further interest / project work / educational visits.

KEY STAGE 2 – SC4 PHYSICAL PROCESSES - ELECTRICITY:

Simple circuits:
1a) to construct circuits incorporating a battery or power supply and a range of switches to make electrical devices work.
1b) how changing the number or type of components makes bulbs brighter or dimmer.
1c) how to represent series circuits by drawing and conventional symbols, and how to construct series circuits on the basis of drawings and diagrams using conventional symbols.

KEY STAGE 3 – SC4 PHYSICAL PROCESSES - ELECTRICITY:

1a) how to design and construct series and parallel circuits.

Click here for full documentation (67.7 KB)
Click here for sample screen shots (29.4 KB)

GENERAL INFORMATION:

PLEASE NOTE: THIS SOFTWARE REQUIRES MY WORLD OR TEXTEASE TO RUN. The Textease format has software speech. The My World format has scaling buttons that are particularly useful for children with VISUAL IMPAIRMENT. The CD-ROM includes both the the My World 3 and Textease format of the software. The My World 3 format self installs. The Textease format must be manually installed.

Both the English and English / Welsh versions of My World 3 are available from ClicSoft.
Electricity and Power is also available in Welsh.

The screens provide a variety of activities including dragging, labelling, sorting and investigative activities. Many may lead to related classroom activities e.g. 'hands on' practical work. Buttons enable pupils to access task, help and research panels enabling them to work individually or in groups with minimal teacher supervision. Text buttons, word and picture banks may be used to add further information to the screens.

A 'New Screen' option accessed via the Task panels is a useful extra function. The new screens are normally blank, but have the same buttons as the related screens. They may be customised by teachers and pupils alike and used to extend topic areas or complete tasks set by the teacher. They are useful when the related screens have fixed graphic / or text and for adapting the set activities for pupils with special needs.

This software is particularly useful for introducing new topic areas and revising previous topics. The nature of both My World and Textease means that the screens are adaptable. The software may be used as both text book and exercise book and may be customised by teachers and pupils alike. The screens do not self correct giving children the opportunity to make and justify their own decisions. With differentiation by outcome, each screen thus provides assessment opportunities.