Electricity - Circuit Symbols

These worksheets introduce students to Electrical Circuit Symbols, and provide a wide choice of resources which will offer students plenty of practice in order to become familiar with, and confident, in recognising how symbols are combined to represent electrical circuits. The worksheets also facilitate differentiation through the teacher’s choice of task.

The PDF file is divided into three sections:

The first section contains a set of Circuit Symbol Diagrams designed to be cut out. Students would then have a set of ‘cards’ that they could use to ‘build’ circuit diagrams by arranging the symbol cards correctly.

The second section deals with Series Circuits. The first group of worksheets require students to draw circuit diagrams, corresponding to different pictures of circuits, which include various components; the next group of worksheets asks students to match the correct circuit diagram to its corresponding picture. Each of the worksheets have a cut-out version, and a second version where the students have to match the number of each picture to the correct circuit diagram.

The third section deals with Parallel Circuits, and provides the same activities as the second section.

All worksheets are suitable for projection on whiteboards, and some are ideal for lamination so that they can be re-used.