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Museum of Science
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K - 6th
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Duration
45 mins
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Circuit Board

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Light up the solutions. By following a set of directions, pupils build a circuit board with six different circuits. Learners use the circuit board to create a matching activity by connecting the questions to the correct answers via a circuit. By touching one end of a wire and power source to a question and the other end with a light bulb to the answer, scholars see whether they are right.

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Concepts

electric circuits, electric currents, electricity, batteries, conductors

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Provide a lesson on what is needed to create an electrical circuit
  • Use the created circuit boards as a way to review content in units

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires the use of a battery that may get hot while completing the circuit

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  • Provides extension suggestions
  • Contains a list of required materials

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