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Circuit Game
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In this activity, learners build a game that tests their steadiness. Learners construct the game board by setting up an electrical circuit and a wand.
Build Your Own Wind Turbine
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Learners construct an electricity-generating wind turbine out of a plastic bottle.

Gel Electrophoresis
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In this activity, learners simulate the process of DNA fingerprinting by using electricity to separate colored dyes.

Flat Flashlight
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In this activity, learners build a tiny but powerful flashlight out of simple materials. Use this activity to introduce learners to electrical circuits and conductivity.

Flashlights and Batteries
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In this activity, learners explore how a flashlight works, showing the electric circuit and switch functions of this everyday household item.

Short Circuit
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In this activity about electricity, learners explore what happens when you blow a fuse.

Trip Wire
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In this activity, learners build simple alarms that they can attach to anything, such as a drawer or doorway. This activity introduces learners to electricity, circuits, and currents.

Circuits with Friends
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In this activity, learners explore the parts of a circuit by modeling, as a group, a “human” circuit.

Using Ohm's Law to Build a Voltage Divider
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In this activity, learners apply Ohm’s Law to construct voltage divider circuits. Learners discover how to read resistor codes and calculate resistor values.

Insulators and Conductors
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In this activity, learners explore the concept of conducting or insulating electricity.

Kosher Dill Current: Make Your Own Battery!
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This is an activity that demonstrates how batteries work using simple household materials. Learners use a pickle, aluminum foil and a pencil to create an electrical circuit that powers a buzzer.

Yogurt Cup Speakers
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Learners build a simple electromagnet, then use this electromagnet to transform a yogurt container into a working speaker. They can connect their speaker to a radio and listen as it transmits sound.

Electricity: Fruit Batteries
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In this activity, learners create a battery from fruit. This activity helps learners explore electricity, electrochemistry, and series circuits as well as the process of scientific inquiry.

Penny Battery
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In this activity, learners light an LED with five cents. Learners use two different metals and some sour, salty water to create a cheap battery.

Wire Maze
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Learners create an electrical-circuit maze out of wire, then try to pass a paperclip through the maze without touching the wire.

Make a Speaker
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In this activity, learners explore how an electromagnet works by making a simple one. Using this knowledge, learners design a diagram to make a working speaker using household materials.

Electromagnet
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In this activity, learners build an electromagnet using a nail, a cork, a battery, and electrical wire. Use this activity to demonstrate how electric currents produce magnet fields.