Grades: 3-8

Learn about 5 different mechanical switches and then design your own! There are hundreds of switches in the world, but why? Did you know that switches can act as sensors? The sparking sense set has our favorite sensing switches and we walk you through how to build gadgets with each one.

Each set includes:

• 2 LEDs
  
• 1 Teknikio batteryboard
• 1 battery
• 4 alligator clips
• 1 lever switch
• 1 tilt switch
• 1 push button switch
• 1 rocker switch
• 1 reed switch
• 1 cardboard model
• 1 piece conductive tape
• 1 buzzer

• Mechanics
• Circuits
• Design thinking