Lesson Plan: Series Circuits Physics • Third Year of Secondary School
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to calculate the potential difference, current, and resistance at different points within simple series circuits.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- recall that two components in series means that they are placed one after another along the same path through the circuit,
- recognize whether two series circuits are equivalent based on diagrams that are drawn slightly differently,
- use for components in series,
- use for components in series,
- use for components in series.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- potential difference,
- current,
- resistance,
- the symbols for basic circuit components: a cell, a battery, a bulb, a resistor, a variable resistor, a thermistor, an LDR, a diode, and an LED.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- parallel circuits of any kind (all circuits shown are single-loop series circuits),
- any of Kirchhoff’s laws by name,
- conservation of energy in circuits,
- energy dissipation by electrical components.
