Electricity Project Ideas for 5th Grade

Make a home circuit design that shows how electricity flows through your house or apartment.

To complete this project, you must do the following…

1.  Draw an outline map of your house or apartment showing rooms and doorways
2. Make a map key with symbols to represent the electrical outlets, light switches, and light fixtures.  Electric outlets are where you can plug in electrical items.  Light switches are where you turn on the ceiling lights.  Light fixtures are the lights that are in the ceiling.
3. Place the symbols throughout the drawing to represent the placement of outlets, switches, and light fixtures.
4. Color you design or use magazine pictures to represent some of the electrical items that may be plugged in like alarm clock, lamp, kitchen appliances, etc.

You will be graded based on the following parts of the project.

______ Map drawn showing rooms and doorways (35 points)

______ Map key with outlets, switches, and light fixtures represented (10 points)

______ Symbols represented on map (25 points)

______ Color, draw electrical items, or use magazine pictures (20 points)

Word version of the activity listed above: Download Home circuit design project 

Idea to extend the learning for accelerated students: Download All Wired Up!-Revised

Thank you to Roxanne Atrchin-Lopez & Page Gillett of Argyle ES for Sharing the "Home Circuit Design" Project!  Images of what their students were able to accomplish are posted below.  Thanks to Stacey Osborne of Mtn View ES for creating the "All Wired Up!"  Extension task.