Circuit diagrams resources

Students indicate on a circuit diagram where they would place switches in order to achieve various situations, such as the lamps being on, off, and other combinations.

Task: Draw, using symbols, circuit diagrams of three described circuits. Assessment focus: using conventions of circuit diagram; knowledge of circuit construction.

Students indicate how brightly a bulb would glow in three different circuits. Students then use pictures of four appliances, showing the arrangement of their cells, to draw circuit symbol diagrams illustrating this cell arrangement.

Students are given six different circuit diagrams. They state how brightly these bulbs will glow when compared to another circuit.

Students are provided with an illustration of two different circuits. Students are required to draw the two illustrations as circuit diagrams.

Students match each of seven circuit symbols provided to its respective name. Then the students use the symbols to complete the simple circuit diagram as described.

Students interpret a circuit diagram to decide whether a bulb will glow with different settings of two switches.

Students use keywords to label a simple circuit, and then explain how someone would know if the circuit is on or off.

This resource assess students' understanding of circuits when they explain what is wrong in five different circuit diagrams.