Last week, Flamingo class were fortunate to have a special visit and talk about electricity safety from our local power company FortisTCI. This experience allowed us to consolidate some of our recent learning in our Science topic on ‘Electricity’.
During our Science lessons, we have been making a variety of electrical circuits using bulbs, motors, buzzers; we even created our own switches. But first we had to learn of the dangers and safety issues that electricity can have, and this talk really helped to reinforce the importance of being careful in different real life situations.
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id you know that a single transformer at home can hold up to 7200 Volts? That’s why you should never open or meddle with them. We also learnt an extremely valuable lesson with regards to cats up trees. If you ever see a cat in a tree near a power line you should always ring the power company to turn the power off!
This was also a fantastic opportunity for us to develop our speaking and listening skills, and we certainly made the most of the question time at the end!
We in Flamingo class would like to say a huge thank you to FortisTCI for coming in with their special demonstration model and for developing our learning even further! We all appreciate our new found understanding and respect for electricity.
