Holiday String Lights Circuits Activity

Keep them engaged with activities before the holiday break in your science class! Your 4th, 5th-grade, and middle school students will brush up on their inquiry skills and feel the Christmas energy with a circuits lab and worksheets that involve string light bulbs and batteries! LOW-PREP, WALLET-FRIENDLY, and FUN!

Ideal for struggling readers, English language learners (ESL, ELL), graphic novel lovers, and everyone in between, this stands apart from other reading intervention passages because it presents the information in a comic format.

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Overview

Learners will build circuits using Christmas light bulbs. The intro activities guide students in building very basic electrical circuits using a 9-volt battery and aluminum foil.

They are then challenged to build more complicated circuits and extend their understanding of electrical energy.

What do you get?

String-Light Circuits Demo

• Visual instructions improve accessibility and guide all students through the steps
• Color and black-line versions included
• Print-and-Go
• Questions within the printout guide students’ understanding

Guided Inquiry

• Improve inquiry skills and build on understanding
• More visual instructions!
• Students expand on their understanding of the concept and build more complicated circuits

Follow-up Questions

• Tie the activity back to the concept of electrical energy and circuits
• This worksheet helps extend thinking

Extension Activities

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They are FUN! 

• This is the most crucial benefit.
• Students are more willing to participate and more engaged.
• The content STICKS.

Visual learning is EFFECTIVE. 

• About 65% of the population consists of visual learners.
• Visual information is processed faster.
• Students who SEE information are more likely to retain it.

EASY to implement! 

• These lesson plans are complete and ready to go, requiring minimal prep time.
• You only need to make copies, upload supplementals to your virtual classrooms, and set up the hands-on activities.
• Lots of flexibility! You can print these as anchor chart posters, add them to interactive notebooks, hand them out to students, or share them virtually. There is plenty of room for modifications.

ACTIVE LEARNING

• Every lesson plan has a low-prep, wallet-friendly, hands-on component.
• Instructions are in a visual format
• Follow-up questions or a lab report are always included

Comics make content ACCESSIBLE

• Naturally differentiated, comics accommodate a wide range of learning abilities and styles.
• Great for classrooms with a diverse population of learners
• They can simultaneously rope in both your gifted and struggling students (and everyone in between).
• Reluctant readers gravitate toward comics.
• Comics help English Language Learners (ESL) and some SPED students find success.

Be the hip teacher seizing the graphic novels craze. Your students will LOVE it!