CLASS VII

SUBJECT:- Science

Date:- 22nd August to 31st August 2013

CHAPTER:- “ Electric current and its effects”.

LESSON TOPIC:- Electric current and circuit.

LESSON OBJECTIVES:-

1. To revive their previous knowledge about last year’s lesson on “electricity and circuit.
2. Students will learn about the difference between static charge and electric current.
3. Students will be familiarized with an electric circuit, circuit components and their respective
functions and symbols.
4. To construct a simple electric circuit in the classroom and to explain how current flows and
the bulb glows.
5. To introduce circuit diagram for a simple circuit.

MATERIAL USED:- A cell or battery, a switch, a bulb and pieces of wire.

LESSON CONTENT:-

1. To collect student’s ideas, knowledge and experiences about their last years lesson about
“electricity and circuit”.
2. To discuss why a well rubbed plastic scale can attract a small piece of paper.
3. Discussion regarding the static charge ( both positive and negative charge ) acquired by an
object when it is rubbed or comes in contact with other material.
4. To compare static charge with electric current with the help of suitable examples.
5. To derive the definition for electric current from the above examples: “flow of electric
charge” and its S.I. unit.
6. To do activities regarding how to build an electric circuit and students will be ask how
electric current flows through the circuit.

A cell Switch

Bulb
Wire

Wooden board
 7. Students are ask to identify different circuit components and their respective functions and
symbols.
8. To draw circuit diagram of a simple circuit both “closed” and “open” circuit.

Conclusion:-

1. Students will revive their last year’s lesson about “electricity and circuit”.
2. Students will be able to differentiate between static charge and electric current.
3. Students will be able understand what is an electric current and how it flows in an electric
circuit.
4. Students will be able to understand an electric circuit and its different components
5. Students will be able to construct their own electric circuit and draw the circuit diagram.

Assignment:- Students are ask to make a battery consisting of three cell with different arrangements.

CLASS VII

SUBJECT:- Science

Date:- 3rd September to 7th September 2013

CHAPTER:- “ Electric current and its effects”.

LESSON TOPIC:- Heating effects of electric current .

LESSON OBJECTIVES:-

1. Introduction to the heating effect of electric current with the help of examples from our
daily life experiences.
2. To discuss why heat is produce when an electric is pass through a wire.
3. To discuss importance of heating effects of electric current in our daily life
4. To discuss about some of the electrical appliances which work on the property of heating
effects of electric current.
5. To demonstrate heating effect of electric current through a classroom activity.

MATERIAL USED:- a cell or battery, a switch, a bulb, wires and a coil of nichrome alloy.

LESSON CONTENT:-

1. To ask students about their common experiences regarding heating of electrical appliances
such as television, tape recorder, mobile phone, etc after prolong use.
2. To do text book activity 14.3, regarding the heating effects of an electric current in the
laboratory.
 Nichrome wire

Copper wire

A cell
Switch

3. To discuss why wires made up of metals such as nichrome alloy and tungsten heats up much
faster than normal copper wire when we pass an electric current through it.
4. To discuss about the resistance of conductors and relate it with the heating effects of
electric current.
5. Discussions regarding how filament of an ordinary bulb immediately heats up and becomes
white hot producing light when we pass electric current through it.
6. Discussions regarding high resistance tungsten wire or the filament as the heating element
of an ordinary bulb.
7. Classroom discussions on pro and corn of heating effects of electric current in our daily life.

Conclusion:-

1. Students will learn why many of our home electrical appliances such as television,
computer, fridge etc slowly heats up after a prolong use.
2. Students will understand why heating effects of electric current takes place.
3. Students will know why high resistance tungsten wire or nichrome wire are use as a
heating element in many electrical appliances.
4. Student can judge some of the advantages and disadvantages of heating effects of
electric current in our daily life.
5. Students will know how an ordinary bulb works on the property of heating effect of
electric current.

Assignment:- Students are ask to collect the name of electrical appliances which works on the

property of heating effect of electric current.

CLASS VII

SUBJECT:- Science

Date:- 9th September to 13th September 2013

CHAPTER:- “ Electric current and its effects”.

LESSON TOPIC:- Uses of heating effect of electric current in our daily life.

LESSON OBJECTIVES:-

1. To demonstrate how heating effect of electric current is use in many electrical appliances in
our daily life.
2. To introduce students about the “heating element” in these electrical appliances and its
special characteristics.
3. To discuss about the workings of many electrical appliances such as electric room heater,
electric cooker, electric iron, geyser, electric fuse, etc on the basis of heating effect of
electric current.
4. To compare C.F.L’s ( compact fluorescent lamps ) with an ordinary bulb.
5. To discuss briefly about “short circuit”, its causes, dangers and methods to prevent it.

MATERIAL USED:- ordinary electric bulb, electric fuse, coil of nichrome wire, electric room heater, etc.

LESSON CONTENT:-

1. Brief recap on the last class’s lesson on heating effect of electric current.
2. To discuss how electrical appliances such as ordinary bulb, electric room heater, electric
cooker, geyser, electric iron, electric iron, etc works on the property of heating effect of
electric current.

An electric cooker

3. To discuss about the heating elements present in these electric appliances and their
respective characteristic and property.
4. To discuss about the main drawback of electric appliances working on the property of
heating effects of electric current.
 5. To discuss why these days C.F.L’s ( compact fluorescent lamps ) are preferred over ordinary
bulb and how C.F.Ls can save much more electricity than ordinary bulb.
6. Discussions regarding the function, features and workings of a safety device called fuse.
7. Discussions regarding the term “short circuit”, its main cause, its dangers and its prevention
methods in our daily life.

Conclusion:-

1. Students will learn the importance of heating effect of electric current in our daily life.
2. Students will learn how heating effects of electric current is use in many electrical
appliances and about the heating elements present within them.
3. Students will also learn about the drawback of heating effect of electric current by
comparing the efficiency of an ordinary bulb with a C.F.L.
4. Students will understand the features and workings of electrical appliances such as electric
fuse, electric iron, ordinary bulb, etc
5. Students will know the meaning of a short circuit and its causes and dangers.

Assignment:- Students are ask to investigate how an electric fuse and modern M.C.B. ( miniature

circuit breaker ) works for the same purpose and also their differences.

CLASS VII

SUBJECT:- Science

Date:- 16th September to 21st September 2013

CHAPTER:- “ Electric current and its effects”.

LESSON TOPIC:- “The magnetic effect of electric current” .

LESSON OBJECTIVES:-

1. Introduction to the magnetic effects of electric current.

2. To demonstrate the textbook Activity 14.5 in laboratory.
3. To teach students how a current carrying wire behaves like a magnet.
4. To discuss about how a current carrying wire is also surrounded by its own magnetic field
like any other permanent magnet.
5. To discuss about the significance of magnetic effect of electric current.

MATERIAL USED:- A cell, a long wire, a switch, a bulb, a magnet, a magnetic compass, a cardboard.
LESSON CONTENT:-

1. Very brief discussions regarding a magnet and its properties by asking questions to the class.
2. To discuss how we can make a magnet with the help of electricity.
3. To demonstrate the textbook activity 14.5 in laboratory.

Activity:- ( i ) Take a cardboard tray and place a magnetic compass inside it.

( ii ) Wrap the wire many a times around the cardboard tray with compass inside it.

( iii ) Connect the free ends of the wire to the two terminals of the battery while keep the

switch in “OFF” position.

( iv ) Now bring a bar magnet close to the compass and see the deflection of the needle.

( v ) Keep the bar magnet away from the magnetic compass and we can see that the needle

again comes to its rest position pointing toward north and south direction

( vi ) Keeping the bar magnet away, now put the switch in “ON” position and watch the

compass needle. What you can see is that the compass needle again starts to deflect.

A cardboard tray

Magnetic compass

A cell A switch bulb

Conclusion:- 1. When the switch is in “OFF” position , current doesn’t flow through the wire and the

compass needle doesn’t show any deflection.

2. While keeping the switch in “OFF” position, if we bring a bar magnet close to the

compass its needle starts to deflect under the magnetic field of the bar magnet.

3. Now while keeping the bar magnet away, if we put the switch in “ON” position, we can

see that the compass needle again starts to deflect from its rest position
 4. This activity shows that whenever electric current passes through the nearby wire,

compass needle starts to deflect like when a bar magnet is brought close to it.

5. Therefore this activity shows that any current carrying wire behaves like a magnet.

Assignment:- Textbook exercise, Q # 1 to 7.

CLASS VII

SUBJECT:- Science

Date:- 23rd September to 28th September 2013

CHAPTER:- “ Electric current and its effects”.

LESSON TOPIC:- “ Electromagnet and its uses. “

LESSON OBJECTIVES:-

1. To introduce “Electromagnet”.
2. To construct an electromagnet using the textbook Activity 14.6 in laboratory.
3. To discuss about the uses of electromagnet in our daily life.
4. Discussions regarding the features and workings of an electric bell.
5. To compare an electromagnet with an ordinary magnet.
6. To do textbook exercises and other question and answers.

MATERIAL USED:- a battery, a long iron nail, long piece of insulated wire, stapler pin or paper clips.

Procedure:

1. Wind the wire tightly around the nail in the form of a coil.
2. Connect the free ends of the wire to the two terminals of the battery.
3. Bring the tip of nail close to small a stapler pin or paper clip and observe what happens. .
4. Disconnect one of the free ends of wire from battery’s terminals and observe what happens.
5. Repeat the above steps again and again.
Coil of wire ( electromagnet)

Iron nail
Observation:

When two free ends of an insulated wire are connected properly to two terminals of a battery, the small
stapler pin or paper clips are attracted to the iron nail coiled inside the wire. However, when one of the
free ends of the wire is disconnected from the terminals of cell, the small stapler pin or paper clip are no
more attracted and there fell off from the iron nail.

Analysis:

When the free ends of the wire are connected properly to the two terminals of battery, the electric current
flows through the wire and the iron nail which is coiled inside the wire starts behaving like a magnet and
is able to attract small stapler pins or paper clip. On the other hand, when one of the free end of wire is
disconnected from a terminal of the battery, no current flows through the wire and the iron nail no longer
behaves like a magnet hence the stapler pin or paper clip are no more attracted to the iron nail.

Conclusion:

A current carrying wire behaves like a magnet and always produces magnetic field around it. The
magnetic field stretched along the length of the wire can be concentrated by twisting the wire into a coil.
When we pass electric current through the coiled wire, it behaves like a magnet. When no electric current
passes through coil, it stops behaving like a magnet. Such a coil of wire is called electromagnet. The
strength of the electromagnet can be greatly enhanced by wrapping it around a magnetic material such as
an iron nail ( soft iron ). The strength of the electromagnet can be also increase or decrease by increasing
or decreasing the flow of electric current through the coiled wire.

Assignment:- Students are ask to compare an electromagnet with an ordinary magnet..