"I love this place", says a kid who just made a parallel circuit powering a buzzer and a light.
"I'm so happy to hear that, what do you love about it?"
"Everything. It's awesome!"
The face of the girl in the picture on the left shined brighter than her super charged light when she finally closed that circuit. The group in the middle picture spent 45 minutes constructing massive series circuits with one another, and the two on the right were determined to effectively use a switch to connect their circuits.
Being our last week of physical science, and at the request of one of my favorite teachers, I wanted the 4th grade kids to have a hands-on experience with circuits. 4th & 5th grades started with a mess of wires, clips, lights, buzzers, motors, switches, batteries & solar panels in the center of their table and were given free range to make connections. K-2 visited six stations set up with examples of simple machines.
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