I wrote this a long time ago, when I was a teacher, which might be a good starting point. https://www.bournetoinvent.com/projects/7-SC-Torch/pages/1_Lesson.htm

I wrote this a long time ago, when I was a teacher, which might be a good starting point. https://www.bournetoinvent.com/projects/7-SC-Torch/pages/1_Lesson.html https://www.bournetoinvent.com/projects/7-SC-Torch/pages/1_L... (please excuse the crappy JS) On another note, I would avoid the water in pipes analogy, as it fails pretty quickly. Electricity is hard to understand because you can't see its effects clearly, but at the end of the day it is caused by an electromagnetic field. Other fields such as gravitational fields, we tend to have a much more intuitive understanding of. Look for explanations that draw parallels between gravitational fields and electromagnetic fields.