Year 5 D.T Day Complex circuits

Lesson: Design and technology

Class: Year 5 Year: 2023 - 2024

The children thoroughly enjoyed learning about the history of mining in Skelmersdale. They even had 'a go' themselves by mining chocolate chips out of chocolate chip cookies. They then tried to lit a light bulb by only using a cell and tinfoil and succeeded! Year 5 turned their simple circuits into complex circuits by adding a switch. These switches were replaced by their own alarm pads to create an alarm system to warn the miners that a mine cart was on its way. To finish an amazing D.T day, they even built their own mine carts to test their alarm pads.