Introduction to Static Electricity

Everyone has thrown a birthday party or some celebration at one time or another and used balloons as a decoration. Ever want to know why the balloon "clings" to the wall? Think it is magic?

Well no, it is not magic, it's SCIENCE!

In today's science lesson you would have learned how a balloon uses
static electricity and the 3 laws of Electricity to help explain this phenomena.

To further practice and understand the wonderful concept of
static electricity, "electricity that does not flow" please complete the following.

HOMEWORK:
Read textbook pages 295 - 298
Define all KEY TERMS on pg 295
Use course kits pg 1 - 3 and fill in the blanks ( text book 295- 302 will help)
Answer # 1 - 3 on pg 300 from textbook

INTERACTIVE GAMES
Here is a link to some future Electricity topics we will study in class.
These are some fun little games to get teh general idea for each topic.

http://homeschooling.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.sparkingreaction.info/more%5Fgames.shtml