Electricity and Circuitry

Elenco®s Snap Circuits® makes learning electronics easy and fun!  With its easy-to-follow instructions, Snap Circuits® gives your child a hands-on education to discover how electrical circuits — like those found in everyday devices kids are familiar with — function and operate. All parts are mounted on plastic modules and snap together with ease. Enjoy hours of educational fun while learning about electronics. No tools required. Uses AA batteries.

Note: Students who have taken our previous Electricity and Circuitry Foundations course will find this new course fun and engaging.

What You’ll Learn to Create

• Explore the basics of electricity and making circuits.
• Learn how electricity and magnetism can be used to make each other, learn about magnetic fields, how the electricity in your home works, how switches control the electricity to the lights in your home, and how series and parallel circuits affect electricity.
• Build simple circuits with lights and sounds using Elenco’s Snap Circuits Kits.
• Projects include: strobe light with music, color-changing lighted fan, air fountain, motion detector, mini car, crawler, and an airplane.

System Requirements

• Snap Circuits Snaptricity (purchase kit: SCBE-75 separately)
• Snap Circuits Motion (purchase kit: SCM-165 separately)
• Chromebook Compatible?: Yes