"The SpringCircuits™
Learning Units & Modules"

A description of the SpringCircuits learning units, modules & lessons

That's a lot of lessons!

          The SpringCircuits™ system is separated into units of learning modules. At the present time, there are two units. Check the edition you are interested in to see which units are included.
          The first unit is "Basic Concepts of Electricity " and involves no math. This unit gives the student an experience of how electrical elements behave so there is an intuitive understanding without the additional burden of math.
          The second unit is "Measurements and Formulas" where the math behind the behavior is introduced.

Unit I - "Basic Concepts of Electricity"

          MODULE 1 - "Working with SpringCircuits™"

1. How “The SpringCircuits™ Electronics Learning
    System” Lessons Work
2. The Parts for Building Circuits
3. The SpringCircuits™ Piece
4. How to correctly remove SpringCircuits™ Pieces on the Loop-Fabric Board
5. How to correctly connect two SpringCircuits™ Pieces
6. How to correctly connect one SpringCircuits™ Piece with
    Two SpringCircuits™ Pieces at the same time
7. The Battery Holder and SpringCircuits™ Battery Piece.
8. How to build a circuit using SpringCircuits™ by following a schematic diagram.
9. Safety First!

          MODULE 2 - "A Simple Circuit"

10. A Simple Circuit
11. What’s an Open Circuit?
12. What’s a Closed Circuit?
13. A Simple Switch
14. Experimenting with moving SpringCircuits™ pieces around
   in the simple circuit
15. Equivalent Circuit Schematic Diagrams
16. What is a Conductor?
17. What is an Insulator?

          MODULE 3 - "Basic Series and Parallel Circuits"

18. What is a Series Circuit?
19. What is a Parallel Circuit?
20. A Series Circuit of Switches
21. A Parallel Circuit of Switches
22. Parallel and Series Equivalent Circuit Diagrams
23. Combining Parallel and Series Circuits
24. A New Circuit to Test for Conductor
25. Economizing the Drawing and Building of a Circuit
26. Comparing two different circuits that test if something is a conductor
27. Test Your Electricity Wits!

          MODULE 4 - "Resistors and Diodes"

28. What is a Resistor?
29. What is a Diode?
30. Can Diodes Light Up?
31. Fast or Slow?
32. Resistors in Series
33. Resistors in Parallel
34. Resistors in both Series and Parallel
35. LEDs in Series
36. LEDs in Parallel
37. Compare Parallel LED Circuits of One Resistor per LED or One Resistor Shared

          MODULE 5 - "Electricity Defined, Stored and More!"

38. Enough Already! What is Electricity?
39. What is a Capacitor?
40. Another Type of Switch
41. Watch where you put that switch!
42. Why is the hallway light on?
43. What are Inputs?
44. What are Outputs?
45. The Big Review... and where to go from here.

 

Unit II - "Measurements and Formulas"

          MODULE 6 - "Measuring Electricity"

46. Measuring Voltage
47. Measuring Voltage in a Series Circuit
48. Measuring Voltage in a Parallel Circuit
49. Measuring Current in a Simple Circuit
50. Measuring Current in a Series Circuit
51. Measuring Current in a Parallel Circuit
52. A Voltage and Current Comparison of two Parallel LED Circuits

          MODULE 7 - "Measuring Resistance"

53. Measuring Resistance
54. Measuring Resistance in Series
55. Measuring Resistance in Parallel
56. Measuring Resistance in both Parallel and Series combinations
57. Voltage across a Resistor
58. Current through a Resistor
59. Types of Resistor

          MODULE 8 - "Calculating Power"

60. What is Power?
61. Power in a Simple Circuit
62. Power expended in a Resistor
63. Rearranging the Formula for Power
64. Total Power Consumed in a Circuit
65. A Power Comparison of two Parallel LED Circuits
66. The Incandescent Bulb vs. The LED
67. Why is that Resistor in Series with that LED?

          MODULE 9 - "Calculating Capacitance"

68. Comparing Capacitances Without Using the digital multimeter
69. Capacitors in Parallel
70. Capacitance in Series
71. Capacitors in a Series and Parallel Combination
72. What is an RC Time Constant?
73. Being clever about estimating Capacitance
74. Capacitor Ratings

          MODULE 10 - "Introducing the Transistor"

75. What is a Transistor?
76. The Transistor Switch
77. The Transistor Buffer
78. The Transistor Amplifier
79. A Constant Current Source using a Transistor
80. The Variety Of Transistors
81. The Big Review II (...and you're on your way!)

Note: While this list is intended to be up-to-date and reflect the current product offering, sometimes the material is updated. Because of this process, some lessons may be added, deleted, modified, shuffled around or renamed to suit the updated material.

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