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Simple Circuit My Electricity Unit is normally kicked off by reviewing components of a circuit, drawing circuits and constructing simple circuits. For the past two years, I have done an inquiry-based learning model using Arduino. (Arduino is a electrical circuit board with a processor that can execute and store code). Using Arduino, students learn how to construct a circuit and code the electronics to perform a function. Here are some examples of my students' work: First, we construct a circuit using a bread board, an LED, a resistor and a battery. It's amazing to see how students are motivated by each other's successes. They will quickly try to copy and figure out why their construction didn't work. And yes, many LED's are fried in the process. The second construction is Blink, where students download Codebender from the Google Play Store. Codebender is the computer code generator that allows you to generate and modify code to fit specified parameters....