This 4th grade electricity check has two pages of questions and an answer key. Page 1 holds five multiple-choice questions with three options each, on batteries, conductors, an open switch, insulators and bulbs. Page 2 shows two circuit drawings that students label Open Circuit or Closed Circuit, with a box to check for the bulb that lights, and finishes with one short answer on why homes are wired in parallel. Page 3 is the answer key.
“Say what batteries, bulbs and switches do in a circuit, and tell conductors from insulators.”
Questions 1 to 5 on page 1.
“Tell an open circuit from a closed circuit in a diagram.”
Circuit A and Circuit B on page 2.
“Explain why homes use parallel circuits.”
Question 8.
Questions 1 to 5, each with three options. They ask which part supplies the energy, which material is a good conductor, what an open switch does, which material is an insulator and what a bulb does.
Circuit A and Circuit B, each with a battery, a bulb and a switch. One switch is closed and one is open. Students write the type of circuit on a line and check the box if the bulb will light up.
Question 8 asks why homes are wired in parallel circuits instead of series circuits. Three lines leave room for the reason.
Letter answers for questions 1 to 5, the type and bulb result for each circuit, and a model answer about lights staying on when one goes off.
End of the unit
Give it when the electricity unit wraps up. Questions 1 to 7 are quick to mark, and question 8 shows who can explain parallel wiring in their own words.
Quiz now, drawings later
Hand out page 1 as a short quiz and keep the circuit drawings for another day. The two pages work on their own.
Mark the drawings together
Go through Circuit A and Circuit B on the board before collecting. Students who missed the switch symbol see it there.
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