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Electric House
Electric House
Electric House
Electric House
Electric House
Electric House
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This product is my absolute favorite! I love doing this with my kids. While teaching the kids about circuits have them bring in some shoeboxes. Towards the end of the circuit unit, have them begin building shoebox houses. The decor must be all handmade and they must create circuits using 9-volt batteries and christmas lights. They create switches using brass tabs and paper clips. At the culimation of the project, have the students put on a sale. I have the students take pictures of their house and create a fake Zillow webpage of their house. Parks, schools, mortgage, price, etc. the whole nine yards! Have teachers, guests, parents, etc. visit your room and give them fake money. It can be any money! Have them make a down payment on the house of their choice! At the end of the round/day tally up the money and the group that earns the most gets a reward! Super fun way to make it competitve! While the rounds are going on and visitors are in the room put up a background like "Deal or No Deal" and play the music. Tell the visitors and kids when the music stops they must make a down payment! When all is done, take the projects up and grade them using the rubric that is attached. If you have any questions let me know! Have fun!!

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Electric House

Rated 5 out of 5, based on 4 reviews
5.0 (4 ratings)
MrTMadScience
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$4.00

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Grades
5th - 12th
Teaching Duration
4 days

Description

This product is my absolute favorite! I love doing this with my kids. While teaching the kids about circuits have them bring in some shoeboxes. Towards the end of the circuit unit, have them begin building shoebox houses. The decor must be all handmade and they must create circuits using 9-volt batteries and christmas lights. They create switches using brass tabs and paper clips. At the culimation of the project, have the students put on a sale. I have the students take pictures of their house and create a fake Zillow webpage of their house. Parks, schools, mortgage, price, etc. the whole nine yards! Have teachers, guests, parents, etc. visit your room and give them fake money. It can be any money! Have them make a down payment on the house of their choice! At the end of the round/day tally up the money and the group that earns the most gets a reward! Super fun way to make it competitve! While the rounds are going on and visitors are in the room put up a background like "Deal or No Deal" and play the music. Tell the visitors and kids when the music stops they must make a down payment! When all is done, take the projects up and grade them using the rubric that is attached. If you have any questions let me know! Have fun!!

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Rated 5 out of 5, based on 4 reviews
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Grades taught: 9th
Rated 5 out of 5
October 28, 2024
My students loved this! This is a great resource, thank you so much!
Emily A.
627 reviews
Grades taught: 4th
Rated 5 out of 5
November 22, 2022
Thanks for this fantastic product. Thanks for putting it together.
Desiree B.
900 reviews
Grades taught: 11th
Rated 5 out of 5
February 8, 2021
I saw this activity on Champions for Science and knew I had to use it with my students. There is so much to learn through this engineering and architecture project. I used this for our week long interterm and this was a great way to give students ideas and samples on how to expand their ideas. Thank you for a wonderful real-world project!
Katelyn H.
49 reviews
Grades taught: 6th, 7th

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