What Does it Take to Make a Functioning Circuit

A table with an electronic kit with the lid open. It has small solar modules and wires. Next to it are; a cardboard box with AA batteries, a plastic kit with a white lid and green contents, and a stack of white and red boxes of Snap Circuits.
Essential Question

Essential Question:

  1. What does it take to make a functioning circuit?
Materials List

Handouts

Classroom Supplies

  • Snap Circuits Jr. SC-100 Electronics Exploration Kit (example)
  • EUDAX Physics Science Lab Learning Circuit Kit (example)

Important Links

Lesson 3 of 8 / Time: 45-60 mins

This Lesson appears as a part of the following:
Water Power Implementation Toolkit

This lesson takes students through different hands-on and virtual circuit-building activities in order to make sense of the essential question: What does it take to make a functioning circuit?

 

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