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ELECTRONICS
Intial Brief
As part of the Civil Defence unit in Food and Nutrition you are
going to make a simple LED torch. The LED torch is designed
to work for a long time because ______________________
______________________________________________
Draw the LED torch circuit below using the correct symbols.

Name
School

1. Draw and fill in the missing information on the table below from Page 5 in the
booklet.
Part
Battery

Drawing

Switch

Description of Function
Stores chemical
_____________
A input device to start and
stop electrical current
which makes it go
The wire in a bulb has
resistance and ________
up and glows.(output
device)
Limits the flow of
electricity in a circuit

Bulb

Resistance
LED (LBD)

This Light Emitting Diode

is an _________
device
Transfers electricity

Wire(Leads)
_________________________
Capacitor

It acts like a bucket by

filling up and tipping out
the electricity.

2. Resistance
Assemble Legend 2.
The input in this circuit is __________ and the output is___________.
LED (LBD) are very common but they only need very little voltage. The
resistance
amount of voltage in a circuit.
3. Series & Parallel Circuits
Assemble the circuits on Legend 3 and answer the questions.
A. In the series circuit, if you unscrew a bulb, why does the other bulb
not work?

B. In the Parallel circuit, if you unscrew one bulb why does the other
bulb keep going?

C. Do you think electric lights in the classroom are in series or parallel

4. Reed Pipes (are an input device)

Assemble Legend 5.
Describe what happen when you activate the dry reed pipe.
.
Explain why this happens
How does the dry reed pipe work?
Give some examples of where else Dry Reed pipes are used?
5. Light Sensitive
Assemble Legend 19.
What are the two inputs in this circuit? ___________ and _____________
The output from this circuit is ________________
6. Switches
Assemble Legend 18.
Black Box is where you have an input and an output but you dont know what
happens inside to make it work.
My own example of a Black Box is _______________ the input is
___________________ and the output is ____________________.
When the Microphone hear a sound and it

___ the electric circuit.

The speaker transforms the ___________ ___________ in to sound.

Name the 4 types of switches in this electronics kit?
1/
3/
2/
4/
Name the 2 types of sensor inputs in this electronics kit?
1/
2/
7. Capacitor
Assemble Legend 32.
The two inputs for this circuit are ______________and _______________.
The output from this circuit is light from the bulb which only runs for a certain
amount of time and turns off and the _____________ makes this happen.
The key when pushed empties the capacitor and start it refilling.

The capacitor acts like a

, it fills up slowly with electricity. By
pressing the key, you tell it to empty the capacitor so the light/fan runs till the
capacitor/bucket is empty.

8. Radio
The Black Boxs in this circuit is the ________________and ______________.
The two transformers in this circuit are _______________ and ____________.
Assemble Legend 53 and see how many radio stations you can receive?

Technological System
Highlight the box that you think best describes your work.
The Student
is able to:

Electronics

Developing Skills

Student can identify

components in a
system & how they
connect.
Student can identify
inputs & outputs for
a system.
Student can identify
that an input is
transformed to an
output.

Meeting Skills

Student can
describe changes
that happen to an
input in a simple
system.
Student can
identify role for
each component
in a system & how
that transforms
an input to an
output.

Beyond Skills

Programme Links
Exercise 1,2,3,4.

Programme Links
Exercise 4,5.

Students can describe

what black box refers to
within a technological
system and the role of
particular black boxes
within technological
systems.
Student identify possible
advantages and
disadvantages of having
black boxed
transformations within
particular technological
systems.
Student describe how the
components, and how they
are connected, allow
particular systems to be
technical feasible and
socially acceptable.
Student describe particular
technological. systems
using specialised language
and symbol conventions.
Programme Links
Exercise 6,7,8.