Lesson Plan

Lights & Circuits Lesson Plan: Middles Edition

Test conductors, meet Lewis Latimer, and make a light-up card that really glows.

This is the Middles Edition of Lights & Circuits: one ready-to-teach week written just for grades 4-6. Every day follows the same rhythm: Reading on Monday, Writing and Words on Tuesday, Science and Math on Wednesday, a Hands-on Project on Thursday, and Show and Tell on Friday.

The big question: Why does one dead bulb sometimes make a whole string of lights go dark?

The Week

• Mon: The Bulb and the Inventor (Reading) • Tue: Who Lit the World? (Writing & Words) • Wed: Conductor or Insulator? (Science & Math) • Thu: Light-Up Holiday Card (Hands-on Project) • Fri: Series or Parallel Show (Show & Tell)

Teaching more than one level? The all-levels edition of Lights & Circuits has Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8) in one file, so siblings or a mixed classroom can study the same topic together.

Perfect for homeschool families, grade 4-6 classrooms, co-ops and substitute plans.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for Middles (grades 4-6), about 60 to 90 minutes a day
• Lab sheet: Conductor or Insulator?
• Sequence cards (The Story of Light) and a cut-and-sort page (Series or Parallel?)
• Writing page: Lewis Latimer: A Life in Light
• Hands-on project: Light-Up Holiday Card
• Word search, crossword, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards and a book list of 5 titles
• A certificate and an answer key for the grown-up

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