10 Easy Stations for Building Circuits!
This has got to be a favorite just because of the sheer amount of effort involved. This could literally be applied to any content! Just using aluminum tape, regular tape, LED, alligator clips and watch battery you have your own light up matching game, or operation, or whatever!!
Here is the list of detailed instructions! My kids were able to make another on their own pretty easily as well. I have my 5th graders make review games for 4th grade! Such a great way to tie content together!
This puzzle lights up when a complete circuit is made. It comes with templates that are labeled with levels so it can work for a variety to ages or as a game. This was definitely a fun option! Here is the link to something extremely similar.
Squishy Circuits are very cool and easy to work! We can apply many concepts such as series and parallel circuits to this and be able to see very easily the results! You could use your own playdough, LEDs, batteries but the kit is inexpensive for the amount of light and other items like a buzzer that come with it. These lights work better than the smaller LEDS that I get from Radioshack if I end up buying anyway.
you can build so many things with this and such an easy illustration!
These were another labor of love but great for just raw materials – instructions here. Just using battery, paper clips, and lights/buzzer you can make your own circuit with an on/off switch. These are pretty cool to display and show others using creativity!
Oh Scribble bot- great machine to show off powering circuits! Just attach a vibrating motor to a battery and put on side of a cup with markers and VOILA! A robot that scribbles on his own. I had a tough time keeping the battery and wires attached – something to improve on for next year.
The Everything Machine from the App store ($) simulates circuitry with many options to build. Like a camera that takes a picture when motion is detected or a light that turns on when a color is present or sound….really endless possibilities. I love how it simulates! I used our a part of our yearly app budget to purchase this just on a classroom ipad to have!
An important discussion we had was how static electricity differs from electricity that powers homes so I had some students working some of my Static Electricity Stations and explaining what the changes were.
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Great ideas, thanks for sharing!
Jamie
Teaching Tidbits and More with Jamie
This is a great list. Can't wait to try some of these circuits out.