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Grade Level:

Elementary (Grade

3-5)

Materials:

1 Battery

1 On/off Switch

1 Tilt Switch

2 LEDs

LEGO Bricks

Copper Tape

Pipe cleaners

Teacher Guide Light it Crafts

Light it Kit:

The kit includes a battery, an on/off switch, a tilt switch and 2 LEDs.

The board has a functioning circuit that allows beginners to easily explore

and gain self-conﬁdence with basic electronics.

Once students have explored the desired concepts using the board, they can

then remove the components from the board and embed them into their

own projects. Note, once the components are removed from the board, they

cannot be placed back on.

The kit allows students to learn simple circuits, circuits in series and parallel,

and/or logic gates, and when removed from the board, conductivity and

insulation.

Lesson Scope & Concepts:

The kits allow learners to explore concepts in electricity. By the end of the

lesson, we hope that students feel more comfortable working with

electronics and feel more conﬁdent to participate in STEM projects in the

future.

The scope and complexity can scale to the age, grade, and skill level of the

learners. What follows is a sample lesson for 4th grade. This lesson will cover

circuit basics & conductivity, identiﬁcation and understanding of basic com-

ponents, testing ideas and prototyping.

Project Sequence:

Here is a sample project for a 4th grade class:

1. Review the basics of circuits using the Quickstart Guide

2. Explore logic gates on the board

3. Explore components off the board (conductivity, series & parallel)

4. Embed circuits into creative projects

Summary of content (6 pages)

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Teacher Guide Light it Crafts Light it Kit: The kit includes a battery, an on/off switch, a tilt switch and 2 LEDs. The board has a functioning circuit that allows beginners to easily explore and gain self-confidence with basic electronics. Once students have explored the desired concepts using the board, they can then remove the components from the board and embed them into their own projects. Note, once the components are removed from the board, they cannot be placed back on.
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Duration: 1-2 hours Next Generation Science Standards 1. Review the Quickstart guide A couple things you’ll want to reinforce to students: • • • LEDs and batteries have a positive and negative side. The positive is marked in red and negative in white on lectrify components. Some components don’t have a positive or negative side. These are marked in blue. Finally, you’ll notice some holes without any color.
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forth. Be careful not to pull on the component itself. You may find it useful to use the tip of a pencil to get the circuits off. Students can get started by exploring conductivity and insulation with a sample set of materials - paper clips, pipe cleaners, alligator clips, etc... Next ask them to go around the room and see if they can find other conductors. Ask students to document their findings on the worksheet.
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. Embed circuits into creative projects There are lots of different ways to incorporate Light it kits. You may be able to include it in an upcoming lesson. Some of the educators we’ve worked with have used it for a ‘morse code-like” project where students created signals with LEDs and switches to communicate. Or tag it onto a lesson about animals or the environment. In the example below, students created animal critters out of the circuits. The circuits are sized to fit on LEGO bricks.
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Student Worksheet Name: 1. Describe what will happen in this circuit. Why? 2. List 10 materials you think might be conductive. Then, test your hypothesis and document your findings. 1. 6. 2. 7. 3. 8. 4. 9. 5. 10. 3. You learned a little about logic gates, determine if the following statements meet AND logic. Remember both statements need to be TRUE to meet the criteria.