Electronics for Kids – Level 2
Introduction
Electronics for Kids – Level 2 is a part of the specially-designed high school STEM curriculum curated by curriculum experts for kids to delve deeper into electronics through STEM projects such as understanding the effect of series and parallel connections in a circuit, visualizing analog and digital signals, visualizing an RC circuit, making DIY goggles, etc. With its clear explanations and an assortment of exciting STEM projects, Electronics for Kids – Level 2 will have students building complex yet exciting DIY electronics projects in no time.
- Prerequisites: Completed Electronics for Kids – Level 1 or have a basic understanding of electronic circuits.
- Kits Required: Evive
- Programming Software: PictoBlox (Block Coding)
Learning Outcomes
After completing Electronics for Kids – Level 2, students will have a basic understanding of analog and digital electronic circuits with the help of a wide variety of projects.
Apart from the aforementioned learning outcomes, this STEM curriculum will also help them develop important skills such as problem-solving and debugging techniques, DIY-ing, teamwork, and creativity.
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Lessons
10+
Activities
7+
Learning Hours
7+
Grades
Curriculum Lesson Plan
Module 1: A Little More About Basics
This module begins with recapitulation of the basics from Electronics for Kids Level 1 after which students will be introduced to series and parallel connections and their effect on the circuit.
Lesson 1.1: Ohm’s Law and LED Basics
- Objective: What is the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance and how to use it to light up an LED?
- Activity: Glowing an LED using evive.
- Learning Outcome: Ohm’s Law: The relation between voltage, current, and resistance. | LED and its property.
- Mode: Practical
Lesson 1.2: Series and Parallel Connection
- Objective: What are resistor series and parallel connections? How do they affect the brightness of an LED in an electronic circuit?
- Activity : Making LED circuits with single, series, and parallel resistors. Reporting the circuit with maximum and minimum LED brightness.
- Learning Outcome: What is the series configuration in resistors, and how does it affect the overall resistance? | What is the parallel configuration in resistors, and how does it affect the overall resistance?
- Mode: Practical
Module 2: All About Signals
Students will be introduced to digital signals, analog signals, tactile switches, potentiometers, and capacitors with the help of hands-on STEM activities based on evive.
Lesson 2.1: ABC of Analog Signal
- Objective: What is an electrical signal? What is an analog signal? What are its characteristics? What is a potentiometer? How to visualize a signal on evive’s mini oscilloscope?
- Activity: Visualizing the signal generated by evive's potentiometer on the mini oscilloscope.
- Learning Outcome: What is the signal? | What is the analog signal and how it looks? | What is potentiometer?
- Mode: Practical
Lesson 2.2: ABC of Digital Signal
- Objective: What is a digital signal? What are its characteristics? What is a switch? What are its types? How does it behave?
- Activity : Making a switch circuit and visualizing the signal generated by a switch on evive's mine oscilloscope.
- Learning Outcome: What is a digital signal and how it looks? | What is the switch? Different types of switches.
- Mode: Practical
Lesson 2.3: LED Circuit with Switch and Potentiometer
- Objective: How to control the brightness and the state of a LED using a potentiometer and a switch?
- Activity 1: Making a circuit to control an LED's brightness using evive's potentiometer.
- Activity 2: Making a circuit to control an LED's state - (ON/OFF) using a switch.
- Learning Outcome: How to control the brightness of a LED using potentiometer? | How to control the state of the LED using a switch?
- Mode: Practical
Lesson 2.4: Visualizing Resistor-Capacitor Circuits
- Objective: What are capacitors and their effect on a circuit? Why does an LED’s brightness vary slowly due to capacitor charging and discharging?
- Activity : Making an RC circuit and visualizing the charging and discharging of a capacitor on evive's mini oscilloscope.
- Learning Outcome: What is a capacitor? | What is a capacitor made up of? | How does a capacitor work?
- Mode: Practical
Module 3: Do-It-Yourself!
After gaining ample knowledge of the basics of electronics, students will make an exciting DIY electronics project using evive by implementing that knowledge.
Lesson 3.1: DIY Goggles
- Objective: How to control a servo motor using evive?
- Activity: Making a pair of goggles that open and close the protective shades with the help of servo motor.
- Learning Outcome: In this activity, students will make a goggle which can open or close the shades using servo motor.
- Mode: Practical
Capstone Project
The final lesson of the Electronics for Kids – Level 2 curriculum for schools is where students get to apply all the concepts they have learned in the previous sections to make a project to solve a real-world problem of their choice.
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