Voltage and Brightness Cloze

Year 6 ScienceElectricity2 pages

About this worksheet

A Year 6 science cloze on voltage and bulb brightness, over two pages with an answer key. Pupils fill twelve gaps in a three-paragraph passage from a bank of twelve words such as volts, current and components. The passage moves from what a circuit needs to how more cells make a lamp brighter and a buzzer louder, and why more lamps make each one dimmer. Two diagrams show a 1.5 V circuit and a 3.0 V circuit. Pupils explain the brighter lamp using the word voltage and predict a buzzer's volume with one cell. It covers two England National Curriculum electricity objectives.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Electricity

โ€œAssociate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuitโ€

Gaps 7 and 10 and both questions in Applying Your Knowledge link brightness and volume to the number and voltage of cells.

Electricity

โ€œCompare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switchesโ€

The passage explains why extra lamps are dimmer and what switches do, and question 1 asks pupils to give a reason.

What's inside this worksheet

Voltage and Bulb Brightness

Twelve gaps in three paragraphs, with each word in the bank used once, from circuit to components.

Applying Your Knowledge

Circuit A has one 1.5 V cell and Circuit B has two. Pupils explain the brighter lamp with the word voltage, and say what happens to a buzzer when a 3 V battery becomes one 1.5 V cell.

How teachers use it

Circuit kit

Build Circuit A and Circuit B with real cells and lamps before pupils answer question 1.

Word bank first

Ask pupils to sort the twelve words into units, components and effects before they fill the gaps.

Buzzer test

Swap a 3 V battery for one cell in a buzzer circuit and let pupils check their answer to question 2.

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