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How to turn a smartphone into a microscope

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How to turn a smartphone into a microscope

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See Microbes with this DIY Phone Microscope

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Do have flow? Exploring electricity and circuits in early childhood

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Do have flow? Exploring electricity and circuits in early childhood

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20 x 20 x 20: Circuits
20 ideas, under $20 (except for items in our TEC Collection), that take under 20 minutes

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By Jenna Herdzina and Jessica Kubacki, TEC Center Interns 2016-17
Erikson Institute's Technology in Early Childhood (TEC) Center and Edward Neisser Library hosted a TEC Playdate for the Erikson community. The TEC Center demoed activities to do with young children to teach them about electricity and circuits. These 20 activities can be done in less than 20 minutes, with under $20 worth of supplies or with tools borrowed from the TEC Center Tools Collection.

Educators, parents and service providers can help children understand their environment better by fostering interest in electricity, but do you, yourself understand electricity and circuits in your everyday life?
A couple of basic concepts of electricity:

A circuit is a closed path or loop around which an electric current flows or travels alone. A circuit is a complete path that an electrical current travels along. It can be a loop or a closed path along which the electrical current flows.

Current means the same thing as charge flow, the flow of electrons.

Power Source provides and/or produces fuel and energy to the circuit
Batteries, Generators, etc.

Load consumes the power provided by a power source
Light bulb, Buzzer, Appliances, etc.

Conductors are materials that allow electrical energy to flow freely serving as a connection between the power source and the load.
Silver, copper, aluminum, iron, steel, graphite, human body, etc.

Insulators are materials that do not allow electrical energy to flow freely (low conductance/high resistance)
Rubber, oil, ceramic, cotton, paper, wood, plastic, air, pure water, etc.

Types of circuits:

Closed: Energy flows in a complete circle or loop. Energy travels from the power source to the load and back to the power source without interruption.

Open: Energy does not flow because the loop is not fully connected.

Short: A break or interruption in the circle in which electricity stops flowing

Below is a list of supplies for all 20 activities at the TEC Center and Edward Neisser Library's, Do you have flow? event.
Download the activities featured: final-do-you-have-flow-pdf
Energy Stick: Human Circuit Game

Graphite Pencil: Graphite Circle

9V Battery: Graphite Circle

LEDs: Graphite Circle, Play Dough Circuits intro, intermediate, advanced, LED Holiday Card, LED Wearable, Circuit Critters

Alligator Clips: Lemon Circuit, Makey Makey Piano

Light blub/ holder: Lemon Circuit

Zinc nail: Lemon Circuit

Copper nail: Lemon Circuit

Battery Pack: Play Dough Circuits intro

Bristle Bot Kit: Bristle Bots

1.5V DC Motor: ScribbleBots

Self-adhesive copper tape: LED Holiday Card, LED Wearable NOTE:3M Copper tape is pricier than others but is more reliable and we thank our friends at the Museum of Science and Industry for this pro tip)
Items featured from the TEC Center Tools Collection can be loaned from the Edward Neisser Library by Erikson students, alumni, faculty and staff : Snap Circuits Beginner
3V Coin Cell Battery: LED Holiday Card, LED Wearable, Circuit Critters
Glue Dot Squares: LED Wearable
Self-adhesive Velcro: LED Wearable
Electrical Tape: Makey Makey DDR
LightUp Edison Kit LightUp Tesla Kit Makey Makey Kit Household items used:
Snap Circuits Jr.

Paper

Lemon

Markers

Tape

Recyclable Container

Rubber Band

Hot glue stick & gun

Scissors

Foam

Cardboard egg carton

Pipe cleaners

Fruit

Laptop/Tablet

Insulating Dough (see QR code to take you to video in activity guide)

Conductive Dough (see QR code to take you to video in activity guide)

AA Batteries

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Do You Have Flow? Investigating Electricity and Circuits in Early Childhood with Technology Tools

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By Jenna Herdzina and Jessica Kubacki, TEC Center Interns 2016-17 Erikson Institute's Technology in Early Childhood (TEC) Center and Edward Neisser Library hosted a TEC Playdate for the Erikson community. The TEC Center demoed activities to do with young children to teach them about electricity and circuits.

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A link to a padlet of Hexbug ideas

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Play and Lesson Planning in the Digital Age Resources

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Play and Lesson Planning in the Digital Age Resources

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Check out lesson and play plans for tech in early childhood

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Here are the resources we shared during our May 3, 2016, webinar on technology, play, and lesson planning in the digital age. Questions to ask during tech integrated lesson planning Observing and assessing young children's digital play in the early years Using the Digital Play Framework (Jo Bird and Suzy Edward)
Warning: Must have access to academic journals to access their published work, but we plan to have them join us for a webinar very soon to share their work. We will also have videos up soon on our website of Jo and Suzy sharing their DPF in their own words.

SAMR (Ruben Puentedura) via Common Sense Education

Note: Common Sense Education has several SAMR videos with Dr. Puentedura
STEM Lesson and Play Planning Katey Highfield talks introing STEM into Early Childhood
A Little Red Hen: A Kindergarten Robot Story from Margaret Powers' blog

Exploring Robots Inside and Out
Buggy and Buddy Hexbugs 7 Coding Concepts that all teachers are already doing in their work with young children:
Ideas, Sequencing, Predicting, Measuring, Planning, Patterns, and Directions
Genius Hour or "Passion Hour" Ideas
NOTE: Thank you to one of our participants, Jennifer B, for sharing that Genius Hour might be retitled to Follow Your Passion Hour. This idea seemed to really resonate with our webinar participants.

Inventors time video w/Yeliz Zurawic
Love from Kindergarten Dare to Care (Denise Krebs)

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Resources from our May 3, 2016 Technology and Play: Play and Lesson planning in the Digital Age

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Katey Highfield on introing STEM in Early Childhood

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Katey Highfield on introing STEM in Early Childhood

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http://teccenter.erikson.edu/show-me-videos/tec-teacher-takeaway-introducing-stem-into-early-childhood/

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Kate Highfield tells early childhood educators how to get started with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) in their early childhood classrooms in this TEC Teacher Takeaway. She encourages educators to take the leap and join in on the learning and play with their young students. Kate Highfield is a teacher educator from the Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University, in Sydney, Australia and contributing author to Technology and Digital Media in the Early Years: Tools for Teaching and Learning, Edited by Chip Donohue.

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TEC Teacher Takeaway: Introducing STEM into Early Childhood

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By - Kate Highfield tells early childhood educators how to get started with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) in their early childhood classrooms in this TEC Teacher Takeaway. She encourages educators to take the leap and join in on the learning and play with their young students.