Step 1: To create this simple circuit on the breadboard start with a 9 volt battery terminal. Battery terminals can be purchased at any local Radio Shack or online at radioshack.com, mouser.com or your favorite online retailer.

Step 2: Connect the black, (-) negative wire from the battery terminal to a negative power column on the breadboard. A breadboard typically has a positive and negative power rail on each side of the board. In the example photo, the negative power rail on the right side of the breadboard is highlighted in blue. The positive power rail on the breadboard is highlighted in orange.

Step 3: Connect the red, (+) positive wire from the battery terminal to a positive rail on the breadboard.

Step 4: Use a jumper wire to connect the positive side of the power rail to one of the breadboard rows. In the example, row 10 was used for the circuit (see photo).

Step 5: Connect one end of the resistor into the same row as the jumper wire was placed on the breadboard in the previous step. Connect the other end of the resistor into the opposite side of the breadboard using the any row. In the example row 10 was used again. There is no positive or negative side on a resistor so it does not matter which end is connected into the negative column.

Step 6: Complete the circuit by connecting the positive side of the LED into the same row as the second leg of the resistor placed in step 5. The positive leg of a LED is the longer leg, also known as the annode. Place the shorter leg (negative leg) of the LED into the negative power rail. The negative power rail is any opening in the column where the black power wire from the battery was placed in step 2.