This comprehensive starter kit will equip your classroom with the tools needed to build a safe electric circuit. This kit includes batteries, switches, bulbs, and more to provide children with practical examples of how electricity powers our everyday lives. Learning about electricity is a great segway to teaching more advanced mathematics and physics concepts.

Helpful resources

The Introduction to Electricity Booklet offers background information to the teacher, together with tasks and experiments for students, presented in a clear and simple way. The pages are photocopiable.

Convenient storage

The Electricity Starter Kit is a plastic container that comes with 12 different compartments, meaning that children can use the equipment and pack everything away neatly. This kit encourages students to team up in pairs or groups and to tackle different challenges in the electricity booklet. Alternatively, experiments can be made into a whole class activity by teachers reading instructions out loud whilst students work together to complete them. The Electricity Starter Kit is an engaging way to teach students more about electrical theory through a practical lesson.

In full, this product contains:

• 2x AA battery holders
• 4x AA batteries
• 10x Crocodile/Alligator clips
• 4x Crocodile/Alligator clips plus leads
• 8x 2m lengths of coloured wire
• 1x Slide switch
• 1x Push switch
• 1x Single knife switch
• 1x Fahnstock switch
• 3x Electric motors and pulleys
• 3x Motor mounting clips
• 1x Buzzer
• 2x Snap connectors
• 10x 1.5v bulbs
• 4x Light Emitting Diodes
• 10x Bulb holders (metal base)
• 3x Bulb holders (plastic base)
• 100x Split pins
• 100x Paper clips
• 100x Drawing pins
• 1x Introduction to Electricity Booklet
• 1x Storage container (12 compartment)