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Resources on Circuits & Robots from SPPL:
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- What is Needed to Make an Electric Circuit?
- Simple Paper Circuit: Template & Guide
- Light-Up Card: Guide
- Bristlebot: Guide
- Printable List of Informational & Activity Books Available at SPPL
Online Videos on Making LED Circuits:
- Bee a Maker: Make a Paper Circuit Light-Up Card
- Science Buddies: How to Make Paper Circuits
- Working with Copper Tape and Paper to Craft Circuits
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Bristlebot Activity Booklet:
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Books with Hands-On Activitives:
- Make Art with Circuits by Christoper L. Harbo
- Make Games with Circuits by Christoper L. Harbo
- Smithsonian Tech Lab: Brilliant Builds for Super Makers by Jack Challoner
- Wire It!: 6 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers by Caroline Alliston
Informational Books:
- How Batteries Work by Victoria G. Christensen
- How Circuits Work by James Roland
- How LEDs Work by James Roland
- How Transistors Work by James Roland
Biographies of Engineers, Inventors, and People working with Electricity:
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
- Changing the Equation: 50+ Black Women in STEM by Tonya Bolden
- Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer by Traci Sorell
- A Day with an Electrician by Mark Thomas
- Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World by Elizabeth Rusch
- Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine by Heather Lang
- Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code by Laurie Wallmark
- Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor by Laurie Wallmark
- Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
- Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea: How a Science Project Helps One Family and the Planet by Elizabeth Suneby
- Lewis Latimer: Engineering Wizard by Denise Lewis Patrick
- Lewis Latimer: The Man Behind a Better Light Bulb by Nancy Dickmann
- Papa's Mechanical Fish by Candace Fleming
- Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge by Rachel Dougherty
- Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soacking Strem of Inventions by Chris Barton
Additional Online Resources:
- The Bubbler @ Madison Public Library: Maker Kit Database
- DK Finds Out: Electrical Circuits for Kids
- Left Brain, Craft Brain: Circuit Activities for Kids
- Maker Camp: Light it Up
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