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Go GREEN with Creative Circuits
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Participants explore Green energy through this engineering design challenge to create structures for a model neighborhood using conductive and insulating dough, LEDs, and handcrank generators.
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Family Take-home Activity
A take-home that can be sent with patrons that wish to do STEM activities at home. These at-home activities cover similar topic areas as the associated activity and could be handed out at the conclusion of a program or left on a circulation desk for patrons to take home.
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Related Programming Resources
| Hints for uses in your library | Brush up on how circuits work -- and how to frame this as an open-ended exploration -- with the background resources in Related Links. |
| Related Links |
Squishy Circuits Store, LLC Quick Start Guide
Click2Science “What Do You Know About Circuits?” Dream Big Lean and Green: Engineering Alternative Energy Generate interest in the Family Take-Home Activity with the video, "A Liter of Light" |
| Originating Source | National Center for Interactive Learning/Space Science Institute |
| Related Books [Suggest a book] |
Windmills by Charlotte Hunter
Energy Island: How One Community Harnessed the Wind and Changed Their World by Allan Drummond Catch the Wind; Harness the Sun: 22 Super-Charged Science Projects for Kids by Michael J Caduto 100 ways to make the world better! |