Paper Circuit Lab

Grades: 4-8
Duration: 2 hours
VA Standards of Learning: SCI 4.1; 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.5, 5.9; 6.1; PS.1, PS.4, PS.9

This hands-on art activity is electric! Students build their own functioning electrical circuit and bring it home. The focus is on identifying open and closed circuits, simple/parallel circuits, switches, and elemental properties of copper. Students apply computational thinking to illuminate the design process.