The range of practical experiments are:

• Comparing fuels
• Electricity from water power
• Electricity from wind
• Making electricity from sunlight
• How hot does the water get from the sun?
• What changes current in a circuit?
• How does adding lamps in series affect the current?
• Can you use bulb brightness to measure current?
• Electric current in circuits – Series circuits
• Electric current in circuits – Parallel circuits
• Electric current in circuits – Current and voltage in series circuits
• Fuses – Do fuses blow at their rated current?
• Fuses – What happens if an over current is applied?
• What decides if something floats or sinks?
• How does up thrust change as an object sinks further into a liquid?
• Up thrust and floating
• How do different materials stretch?
• Investigating friction – static friction
• Investigating friction – dynamic friction
• How does the strength of an electromagnet vary with an increasing current?
• How does coiling a wire affect the strength of the electromagnet?
• What happens if an alternating current is used to make an electromagnet?
• Reflections
• How does the intensity of light change with the distance from the light?
• What happens to the brightness of a bulb as voltage is changed?
• Long wires, less power?
• Speed of sound – by reflection
• Speed of sound – by time difference between two sensors
• Measuring the speed of sound in air
• Measuring speeds on a runway
• Average speeds/velocity
• How does the angle of a slope affect the speed of a cart rolling down it?
• Acceleration
• Streamlining
• Energy and heat
• Induction in a coil
• Forces in levers
• Pulleys

The sensors used include:

• Temperature (3100)
• Voltage (3160 or 3160-12 and 3162)
• Current (3165 and 3166 and 3167)
• Light Level (3124 or 3122, 3120)
• Force (3143)
• Motion (3270)
• Light Gates (3250)
• Magnetic field (3170)
• Sound Level (3175)
• Wire Coil (3173)