LightUP your FAB - SCOPES Digital Fabrication

Lesson Details

Age Ranges
Standards
Fab-Safety.1, Fab-Electronics.1, Fab-Fabrication.1
Author

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Author

Edmundo Reyes
Maker

Summary

Light is an essential thing in our lives and we have been able to capture it. LightUP is a fun and simple way to understand it. Children build a pocket light with a battery, a led light and a laser cut cardboard.

What You'll Need

One child kit:

  • 3V disk battery
  • Cardboard laser cut archive
  • Small LED light

 

Explanation:

  • Basic electronics knowledge
  • nergy transportation

 

The Instructions

Prepare

Get the material and prepare an explanation

Get the material and prepare an explanation:

Buy electronics

Laser cut the archive

Get white scholar glue

Learn

Gather the children for an explanation

Explain the children this concepts (Do it in a dynamic way and give examples)

-Light

-Energy

-Battery

-LED light

-Switch

Make

Give the children the material and show them how to build the item

Explain them you are going to create a pocket lamp and let them watch you do it

Play

Let them play

Let them play

Standards

  • (Fab-Safety.1): I can safely conduct myself in a Fab Lab and observe operations under instructor guidance.
  • (Fab-Electronics.1): I can follow instructions to build a simple electrical circuit using conductive material, basic components, and power.
  • (Fab-Fabrication.1): I can follow instructor guided steps that link a software to a machine to produce a simple physical artifact.