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Museum of Science: Activities to Explore Static Electricity

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This page links to five lesson plans in static electricity for beginning learners, plus reference material on the topic of electrostatics. Each lesson incorporates common household items and can be set up quickly for either classroom or home use. The lessons are designed to help beginners understand charge, electrostatic induction, and how transfer of electrons occurs. It is part of a larger collection created by the Boston Museum of Science.

http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/staticmenu.html

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Electricity & Magnetism - Electrostatics	- High School - Middle School - Elementary School	- Instructional Material = Lesson/Lesson Plan - Reference Material

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2002 Boston Museum of Science
Keywords:: beginning learners, electric charge, electrostatics, elementary static electricity, primary grades, static electricity, statics
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created November 10, 2006 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:: November 21, 2011 by Caroline Hall
Last Update when Cataloged:: January 31, 2004

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AAAS Benchmark Alignments (2008 Version)

4. The Physical Setting

4G. Forces of Nature

6-8: 4G/M5. A charged object can be charged in one of two ways, which we call either positively charged or negatively charged. Two objects that are charged in the same manner exert a force of repulsion on each other, while oppositely charged objects exert a force of attraction on each other.

This resource is part of a Physics Front Topical Unit.

Topic: "Static" Electricity
Unit Title: Teaching About Electrostatics

This page links to five lesson plans in static electricity for beginning learners. Designed for easy set-up, the lessons are intended to help beginners understand charge, electrostatic induction, and how transfer of electrons occurs.

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