Electricity Switches Lessons | Paper and Digital

Explore how switches help control the flow of electricity with this demonstration and set of station activities. Your students will be highly engaged in using their critical thinking skills to experiment while making different types of switches. And best of all, you only have to prep a few materials.

This resource is included in our Grade 5 Alberta Science Bundle. It is also part of our Electricity and Magnetism Bundle.

This engaging resource includes:

• a complete lesson plan.
• station cards for instructions, materials, and clean-up.
• differentiated hints for each type of switch.
• photographs of each type of switch.
• reading passages about switches and Morse Code.
• a digital version with loose text that can be read by assistive technology.
• student answer recording pages.
• possible extension activities.

This resource will require students to build circuits. 

This resource aligns with:

• Alberta Program of Studies Grade 5 Science Electricity and Magnetism

This resource supports:

• any basic electricity unit

Ninja Note: To access the digital version, download the PDF and click the link inside the file.

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