LED Lights for School Projects

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Invented in Russia in the 1920s then mass produced in the United States during the 1960s, LEDs or Light Emitting Diodes are a popular lighting option these days. They are classified as semiconductor devices and the way that LEDs work is by converting electricity to light via electron movement. Although they are commonly used for residential and commercial lighting, there is more to LED than meets the eye. Read on to find out how you can use LED lights for educational projects in school.

Why Use LED Lights for Educational Projects?

What are the benefits of using LED in the first place?

First of all, LED reduces lighting energy costs by up to 50%. By choosing this as an alternative to traditional fluorescent or incandescent bulbs, you are basically teaching students the importance of saving energy. LED lights are environmentally-friendly and sustainable, making them ideal to use for almost all applications.

Second, LED lights are non-toxic so you can easily integrate them in school projects.

Third, LED lights are safe because they do not flicker; they do not produce infrared light; and they have zero ultraviolet rays. More importantly, LED lighting products are low cost so you can require kids to buy or bring at them to school without guilt about how much they'd need to spend.

Teaching Kids to be Creatively Eco-Friendly

If being eco-friendly is the primary benefit of using LED lights, how can teachers integrate them in school projects? Here's a quick list of how you can utilize LED lighting products as a teaching tool for kids in school:

-Demonstrate to high school students how diodes work by building a basic circuit using LED, wires and batteries.

-Create a small wire tree or a family tree with LED flowers.

-Make a jack-o-lantern project using LED during Halloween.

-Come up with a uniquely designed wire-free LED bracelet.

-Design a LED night lamp.

Depending on the project that you will ask the students to create, you can prepare a supply of individual LED bulbs, LED light strips, rigid LED Light bars, LED Light Dimmers, UV LED Light strips, LED modules or DIY LED KITs.

To sum it all up, LED lights are eco-friendly, cheap, safe and fun to look at - so you can easily use them in your next school project. School light projects are common in classrooms and science fairs in both primary to high school. The behaviour of light is an exiting concept, no matter what grade your students are in.


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Olga Kozlovska is a lighting decoration and design specialist based in Melbourne Australia. Her site is all about unique decoration ideas suitable for all circumstances and budgets. The LED lighting is the latest and greatest from the technology she's working on. Check the cutting edge designs at: http://ledsdecor.com.au


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