Curated OER
Help Wanted: A Lighting Engineer For Popular Rock Group
Students are assigned to groups, and determine each member's role in the group. They will design an experiment to determine a way to produce the three primary and five secondary colors. Students discuss color and mood. They listen to a...
Curated OER
Airplane Propeller
Students examine the different kinds of propellers and their functions. In this airplane activity students build a hand made propeller.
Curated OER
Forces And Energy
Students investigate the atom and how it is formed. They conduct research using a variety of resources and then construct a model of the atom. Then students have class discussion. The instructional activity includes background...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Static Electricity: Snap, Crackle, Jump
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, see static electricity make breakfast cereal jump and hair stand on end. [2:49]
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Static Electricity: Creating Lightning on Much Smaller Scale
In this elementary science activity, students will experiment with static electricity using balloons. After investigating how balloons attract and repel various objects, students will watch a simulation of static electricity to help gain...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Static Electricity
Static electricity is an electric charge on the surface of an object. When the difference between the charge on the object and the charge on a nearby object becomes great enough, a spark of electric current leaps between them. Learn...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Static Electricity Thunder and Lightning
An activity where students simulate the creation of thunder and lightning using simple materials, and learn how static electricity can produce sound.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Electric Girl
Anna loves electricity. Watch her construct a homemade flashlight and show off her new, electrifying hairdo in this video segment from ZOOM. [3:05]
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Electricity
A video and a short quiz on electricity, covering static electricity, lightning, and energy generated from electricity. [3:20]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Electricity & Electric Circuits
Mr. Andersen introduces the topic of electricity. He differentiates between static electricity and current electricity. An introduction to electric circuits is also included.
Crash Course
Crash Course Physics #13: Statics
The Physics we're talking about today has saved your life! Whenever you walk across a bridge or lean on a building, Statics are at work. Statics is the study of objects when they're NOT accelerating. In this video [9:07] episode of Crash...
Crash Course
Crash Course History of Science #27: Electricity
The study of electricity goes all the way back to antiquity. But, by the time electricity started to become more well known, a few familiar names started to appear. Edison, Galvani, Ohm, Ampere, Volta, and a few others really changed the...
Crash Course
Crash Course Physics #25: Electric Charge
Moving on to the unit on the Physics of Electricity, it's time to talk about charge. What is charge? Are there positive and negative charges? What do those things mean? In this video episode, Shini talks about electrostatic forces,...
McREL International
Mc Rel: Whelmer #31 Activity: Static Charged 2x4s
A simple activity that investigates the basic principles behind static electricity. The activity is in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Take Charge!
Students come to understand static electricity by learning about the nature of electric charge, and different methods for charging objects. In a hands-on activity, students induce an electrical charge on various objects, and experiment...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Electrostatic Telegraphs (Case Study)
A study of static electricity including the contributions from Thales, George Louis Le Sage, Alessandro Volta, Benjamin Franklin.
PBS
Nova Teachers: Lightning: Classroom Activity
This lesson plan allows students can create static electricity and compare it to lightning.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Electrostatic Telegraphs (Case Study)
Long before the internet people thought about sending information along wires using static electricity.
Next Vista for Learning
Next Vista for Learning: Super Soda: Phenomena Science
A video where students observe a situation and explain why a phenomena in science happens. This illustrates static electricity as a balloon is attracted to a coke can. [0:44]
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Lights Out!
This lesson introduces the concept of electricity by asking students to imagine what their life would be like without electricity. Two main forms of electricity, static and current, are introduced. Students learn that electrons can move...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lightning!
This video segment adapted from NOVA explains the mysterious force of lightning.
SciShow
Sci Show Kids: What Causes Thunder & Lightning
A video investigating how charges build up in clouds until it released with lightening jumping from cloud to cloud or cloud to ground as electrical charges move. Also discussed is how thunder is created when heat from lightning causes...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: How Do Balloons Interact When Rubbed Together?
Students investigate how two balloons interact with objects and each other when rubbed with a wool cloth. The students will also develop new testable questions and perform experiments to further their learning.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Discovery of Triboelectric Effect
Our ancestors noticed that when amber was rubbed against fur it attracted small objects...why is this? Watch this video for a demonstration. [0:51]
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