Course curriculum

  • 1

    Before we start:

    • Safety guidelines

    • List of components needed
  • 2

    Chapter 1

    • Safety guidelines to be followed for each lesson

    • Lesson 1.1: Let's get familiar with basic components and polarity, create a switch and do a fun experiment by adding various materials in our circuit!

    • quiz-1.2

    • Lesson 1.3: LEDs and Resistors - we'll build circuits using these two components. We'll experiment with different resistors to see how they impact our circuit.

    • Quiz-1.4
  • 3

    Chapter 2

    • 2.1 :Safety guidelines to be followed when building circuits

    • Lesson 2.4: Series circuit and circuit diagram

    • 2.5: Assignment- Draw the circuit diagram

    • 2.8:Circuits quiz
  • 4

    Chapter 3

    • 3.1 Safety guidelines to be followed for each lesson

    • 3.2 Setting up RaspberryPi-Pico microcontroller, installing Thonny and MicroPython

    • Lesson 3.3a :Breadboard- No not the one for slicing bread!

    • Troubleshoot 3.3a.1- If the LED on your breadboard doesn't light up- then use these checkpoints to troubleshoot your circuit.

    • Lesson 3.3b: Add a push button to your circuit on breadboard (circuit continued from previous lesson- 3.3a)

    • 3.4 Breadboard quiz

    • 3.5 Breadboard activity-experiment with resistors
  • 5

    Chapter 4: Breadboard workshop

    • 4.1 Breadboard activity- Light up two LEDs in parallel on your breadboard

    • 4.2 Breadboard activity- Move your circuit to another set of sockets on your breadboard
  • 6

    Chapter 4 continued: Breadboard workshop

    • 4.3 Answer key to breadboard activity 4.2 -Move your circuit to another set of sockets on your breadboard

    • 4.4 Breadboard activity: Can you add another button in series to your circuit on your breadboard?

    • 4.5 Quiz on two button circuit (breadboard activity 4.4)
  • 7

    Chapter 5: Introduction to Python

    • 5.1 Python- Introduction to variables

    • 5.2 Activity : Add print statments to this Python code

    • 5.3 How to take a screen-print of your code to post for an assignment with snip & sketch tool on Windows10 OS

    • 5.4 Assignment : Python Code

    • 5.5 Python- Introduction to loops

    • 5.6 Activity- Python code with a loop

    • 5.7 Assignment : Python code

  • 8

    Extra lessons

    • Python practice problems

    • Copy of Lesson 2.2 : Resistors- Decoding the color code

    • Copy of 2.3:Resistor color code quiz

    • Copy of Lesson 2.6: Parallel circuits and circuit diagram

    • Copy of 2.7:Submit your circuit diagram with 3 LEDs in parallel

    • Measure potential difference with a multimeter

    • Measure resistance with a multimeter