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Static Electricity

This document contains lesson plans for teaching 4th grade students about static electricity over multiple days. It includes objectives, assessments, materials and procedures. On the first day, students will learn that static electricity is a buildup of negative charges through demonstrations with a balloon and light rod. They will discuss if static electricity is the same as normal electricity. The next day reviews these concepts and has an activity with positive and negative signs. On the third day, students learn how static electricity relates to lightning through diagrams and discussing buildup and discharge of charges.

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Static Electricity

This document contains lesson plans for teaching 4th grade students about static electricity over multiple days. It includes objectives, assessments, materials and procedures. On the first day, students will learn that static electricity is a buildup of negative charges through demonstrations with a balloon and light rod. They will discuss if static electricity is the same as normal electricity. The next day reviews these concepts and has an activity with positive and negative signs. On the third day, students learn how static electricity relates to lightning through diagrams and discussing buildup and discharge of charges.

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Tuesday, 4/12/16

SOL:
4.3 The student will investigate and understand the characteristics of electricity. Key concepts
include:
c) static electricity;
Objective: The student will be able to explain what static electricity is. The student will be able to
decide if static electricity is the same as electricity.
Assessment: Exit slip - I will give students a small piece of paper to write what static electricity is
from what they learned today. This will guide what I go over again on Wednesday.
Materials:
Textbook
Balloon
Light rod
Exit slip papers
Procedure:
Draw little ball on whiteboard show the basic idea of an atom.
o Positives match the number of negatives
Explain what each of these mean.
Plusses on the inside, minuses on the outside
o Talk about electrical charge box on top of page F70
magnets
Remember that the north and south poles attract each other?
They are opposites, just like positive and negative charges!
Positives attract negatives
Like charges repel.
Read F71
o Static electricity is a buildup of negative charges on a
surface.
o Negatives fall off and want something to pair off with.
o Bottom 3 pictures of F70
Demonstrate rubbing balloon with wool cloth.
o Go through what happened in the pictures again.
o Rub balloon on peoples heads
Whats happening? Tell me!
Is static electricity the same thing as electricity?
Turn off all lights, close blinds
o Take balloon, rub balloon on peoples head.
o Watch carefully! Put balloon up to the light rod. Did you see it light up?
It is the same electricity as in power plants, batteries!
Talk about how static means not moving - the object isnt going anywhere!

Wednesday, 4/13/16
SOL:
4.3 The student will investigate and understand the characteristics of electricity. Key concepts
include:
c) static electricity;
Objective: The student will be able to explain what static electricity is. The student will be able to
decide if static electricity is the same as electricity.
Assessment: Talk to students after the light rod activity. Ask the same question as before - is
static electricity the same thing as electricity?
Materials:
23 pieces of paper with positive or negative sign.
Balloon
Light rod
Procedure:
1. Review positive and negative charges again.
a. Positive + proton, negative electron
b. Positives attrach negatives, negatives repel negatives, positives repel positives
2. Play game give each student a piece of paper with either a positive or negative sign on
it.
a. Have students with positives on one side of class, negative on the other.
b. Have students attract someone. Each negative must find a positive and get as
close as possible to them.
c. Have students repel someone. Each negative must repel other negatives and
positives must repel other positives.
d. Take a positive and change it to a negative. Find an attracting partner again. Who
got left out? Where could they find a partner? (the wall, board, any other surface)
3. Review static electricity
a. Static electricity is a buildup of negative charges on a surface.
i. Negatives fall off and want something to pair off with.
ii. Show the balloon on the wall again.
4. Is static electricity the same thing as electricity?
a. Ask before doing activity.
i. Have everyone close their eyes and vote for more accurate testing.
b. Turn off all lights, close blinds
c. Take balloon, rub balloon on someones head.
d. Watch carefully! Put balloon up to the light rod. Did you see it light up?
i. Do for each table
e. Ask the same question, with eyes closed again. Has the vote changed? If not,
talk about how because the light lit up, even just for a flash, there was energy
moving and electricity happened!
f. It is the same electricity as in power plants and batteries, it powers things!
g. Talk about how static means not moving the object isnt going anywhere!

Thursday 4/14/16
SOL:
4.3 The student will investigate and understand the characteristics of electricity. Key concepts
include
c)static electricity;
d) the ability of electrical energy to be transformed into light and motion, and to produce heat;
Objective: Students will be able to tell how lightning forms.
Assessment: Workbook page 312
Materials:
Textbook pages F73-74
Workbook page 312
Procedure:
1. Who has ever shocked someone before?
1. Who has ever been shocked? Why did it happen?
2. This is a result of static electricity! Which as we know is the buildup of electrical
charges on a material, such as the balloons we have been using the past few
days!
3. The charges keep building up because of the friction between you and
something, and the negative charges move onto an object when you touch it.
This is called discharge! This is when you get zapped!
4. Buildup = static electricity. Movement of charges = discharge.
5. More static electricity in the winter because less moisture in the air.
6. If it is dark enough, sometimes you can even see a spark!
b. Lightning is the same thing as that spark, but on a much larger scale!
1. Discuss lightning diagram on F73.
b. Lightning safety - page F74
c. Workbook page 312

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