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Paper Circuits & LED Cards
Cost: Level of difficulty: Age group:
Size of group: 12-15 kids Program duration: 1 hour-1.5 hours
Prep time: Low Staffing: 1-2 people
Equipment: LEDs, copper tape, CR2032 batteries, crayons, colored pencils, tape, scissors, card stock, thumb tacks, cardboard scraps, templates, tape, glue (Amazon.com).
Program Tips:
Use squishy circuits or Little Bits to introduce how circuits work
Kids/Teens can create also anything using paper, copper tape LEDs, batteries - cards, lanterns or adding LEDS to pictures
Positive to positive and negative to negative when creating a circuit with the LEDs and batteries.
[email protected] http://tinkergroup.wordpress.com @TinkerGroup facebook.com/tinker.folks
Contact information:
Alison Tseng, Algonquin Public Library, [email protected]
Katie LaMantia , Schaumburg Township District Library, [email protected]
Renee Neumeier, Evanston Public Library, [email protected]
Arduinos
Cost: Level of difficulty: Age group:
Size of group: 10 kids (1 kit and computer for 2 kids) Program duration: 1-1.5 hours
Prep time: High Staffing: 1-2 people
Equipment: Computers, Arduino kit (including LEDs, wires, resistors, etc.) , Arduino software
Prep: Download free Arduino software from www.arduino.cc and Arduino codes . Assemble the boards and
breadboards for each Arduino kit.
Program Tips:
Purchasing a kit gives your materials for a variety projects
Arduinos use the coding language C/C++
Start with a simple program like blink, have teens look at the code and see if they figure out how to set-
up Arduino, breadboard LED and resistor to work
Once they’ve mastered the project encourage kids to tweak the code
Introduce new projects the same way—some favorites are projects that play music or light up multiple
LEDS
[email protected] http://tinkergroup.wordpress.com @TinkerGroup facebook.com/tinker.folks
Squishy Circuits
Cost: Level of difficulty: Age group:
Size of group: 12-15 kids Program duration: 45-60 minutes
Prep time: Medium Staffing: 2 people
Equipment: Squishy Circuits kits (Amazon.com) or battery pack, buzzer, motor, conductive and insulating
dough, 10mm diffused LED (Radio Shack), food coloring
Prep Time: 30 minutes to make conductive/insulating dough
Program tips:
Use activities from the St. Thomas University website http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/
SquishyCircuits/BUILDINGCIRCUITS.htm
Little Bits
Cost: Level of difficulty: Age group:
Size of group: 12-15 kids Program duration: 45-60 minutes
Prep time: Low Staffing: 1-2 people
Equipment: Little Bits http://littlebits.cc/ (educator discount)
Program tips:
Tons of project ideas on the website http://littlebits.cc/
Create an open ended question— ex: make something that lights up, make something that vibrates
Wearables Cost: Level of difficulty: Age group:
Size of group: 12-15 kids Program duration: 1.5-2 hours
Prep time: Low Staffing: 2 people
Equipment: Felt, lace, sewing needles, thread, conductive thread, snaps, 10mm LEDs, CR2032 batteries, Adafruit sewable battery holder (Ada Fruit, amazon.com)
Program tips:
Talk through how circuits work
May need to go over sewing basics
Try, fail , revise