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What uses electricity at home

Your child can walk around the house and point out what runs on electricity — the fridge, TV, and lights. They know some things plug in and some use batteries.

In curriculum terms

Identify common appliances that run on electricity and understand that electricity is a form of energy that powers devices in everyday life

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Try this together

Can your child walk around the house and point out which things use electricity to work, like the fridge, TV, and lights?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
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What uses electricity at homethis skill · ages 8–9
Unlocks
Building a simple circuitages 8–9Must identify electrical appliances before building circuits

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Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).

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