Lesson Plan

Lights & Circuits Lesson Plan

Why does one dead bulb sometimes darken a whole string of lights? This week your kids find out, with their own hands.

This five-day unit study gives you a ready-to-teach plan for three levels, Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8), for siblings or a mixed classroom. Days run Reading, Writing and Words, Science and Math, Hands-on Project, then a Friday show where your child or students switch on what they built. Littles count the lights at home and make a glowing play dough bug. Middles test conductors, meet inventor Lewis Latimer and make a light-up card. Bigs read real patents, work out what holiday lights cost to run, and wire a lit cardboard house. Every circuit is safe: AA or coin batteries, foil, LEDs and dough, never a wall outlet.

Perfect for homeschool families, multi-age classrooms and winter STEM units.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for each of three levels
• Parts of a Simple Circuit label sheet with answer key
• Lab sheets: light count, conductor test, energy math
• Sequence cards, cut-and-sort pages and a writing page for every level
• Word search, crossword, scramble and secret code puzzles
• Fact cards, vocabulary, a book list and a certificate per level

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