After seeing the cool things that electrical engineers were doing at the FREEDM Center, I worked on developing a very basic introductory lesson on circuits for 6-8th grade students. The goal was to ignite their interest in circuitry while requiring very little investment in materials from the teacher. The solution was to create the “Pencil Circuits” lesson that uses a pencil, 9V battery, and LED’s to create circuits. No wires—students’ pencils “draw” the wires!
I would love for this lesson to be used by teachers and anyone else who wants to lead a lesson on introducing circuits. Through my fellowship, we worked to create engineering lessons that would be sent out to every county in NC and possibly beyond. This lesson could act as a supplement to the other lessons.
The student worksheet is posted at the link below: