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Know About Electrical Circuits and Their Symbols

In this worksheet, students will practise their understanding of symbols used when creating circuit diagrams.

'Know About Electrical Circuits and Their Symbols' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 2

Year:  Year 6 Science worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Electricity

Curriculum subtopic:   Circuit Diagrams and Symbols

Difficulty level:  

Worksheet Overview

When we make a circuit it might look like this:

 

photo of simple circuit

 

When we draw a picture of a circuit it might look like this:

 

drawing of a circuit

 

When we draw a scientific diagram of a circuit it might look like this:

 

circuit diagram

 

Scientific diagrams are drawn using standard symbols.

Do you notice the symbol for the battery?

Do you notice the symbol for the bulb?

And look at the wires, they are drawn in a rectangle shape.

 

In this activity, we will see different pictures and symbols of components in a circuit.

 

Let's get started.

 

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