We have been studying all things ELECTRICITY! First, we had to go through some safety information before we started constructing our own circuits. We managed to identify what was needed for a bulb within a circuit to light. Our first circuit making lesson, we just used one bulb, one cell and 2 wires and we managed to make the bulb light. In our next lesson, it was a little bit trickier, we had to make 2 bulbs light.. but only using 1 cell. We observed that the bulbs were dimmer. We then added another cell, and the bulb became brighter! We also explored switches and how they can control whether a bulb lights or not. We then had lots of fun investigating whether items in our classroom were insulators or conductors. We discovered that paper clips, sharpeners and drawing pins all allowed the electricity to continue to flow through in the circuit, and the bulb remained lit. Our rubbers and rulers stopped the electricity from flowing through the circuit, meaning the bulb did not light up.