Cabin mood lighting

Use colour-changing LEDs for a mood lighting circuit that can help passengers to relax whilst inside an aircraft cabin.

This activity could be used as a main lesson to teach about soldering, assembling circuits and the function of components or to support learning about colour and how it changes our response to products.

You will need:

• Soldering iron, stand and mat/base
• Solder
• Mood light circuit board
• 5 V power supply e.g. a USB cable
• Slide switch
• 5 mm colour changing LED
• Protective resistor for the LED

All activity sheets and supporting resources are free to download, and all the documents are fully editable, so you can tailor them to your students’ and your schools’ needs.

The activity sheet includes teacher notes, guidance, useful web links, and links (where appropriate) to the national curriculum in each of the four devolved UK nations; England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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