MONTAGUE — Arts-and-crafts supplies and guidance from older students made for a hands-on lesson in electrical circuitry for fourth-graders at Sheffield Elementary School.
Fourth-grade Teacher Laurie White brought in Turners Falls High School Teacher Brian Lamore and students from his Design and Build class on Friday to help with the technical details while her students turned drawings they’d made into working electrical circuits.
The lesson was part of White’s unit on energy, in which students learned about different forms of renewable and non-renewable energy, and basic principals of electricity.
Fourth-graders made drawings that included a copper-tape outline of an electrical circuit. The high school students soldered in resistors and little LED lights, then attached nine-volt batteries to light them up. They also worked through the technical troubleshooting when things didn’t go as planned.
Fourth-graders who touched their lit-up circuitry said it didn’t zap them
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