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Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Hair Raising Science ActivityScholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Hair Raising Science Activity
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Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Hair Raising Science

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A great experiment to show students how electrons move by static electricity. This site includes web links, a challenge question, and notes for the teacher.

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electrons, static electricity

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electric energy, electrical charge, electricity information, experiment activity, static, static charge, static electricity experiments, what is static electricity?, electric force, negative charge

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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