Static Electricity Mini-Labs

Static Electricity

Mini Labs

07-PS2-3: Ask questions about data to determine the factors that affect the
strength of electric and magnetic forces.

07-PS2-5:Conduct an investigation and evaluate the experimental design to
provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even
though the objects are not in contact.

Background Information

Everything we see is made up of tiny little parts called atoms. The atoms are made of even smaller parts. These are called protons, electrons and neutrons. They are very different from each other in many ways. One way they are different is their "charge."

-Protons have a positive (+) charge.

-Electrons have a negative (-) charge.
-Neutrons have no charge.

Learning Target:Today I am learning about static electricity.

Success Criteria:I can create a model that shows static electricity. .

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Usually, atoms have the same number of electrons and protons. Then the atom has no charge;
it is "neutral." But if you rub things together, electrons can move from one atom to another.
Some atoms get extra electrons. They have a negative charge. Other atoms lose electrons.
They have a positive charge. When charges are separated like this, it is called static electricity.

If two things have different charges, they attract, or pull towards each other. If two things have the same charge, they repel, or push away from each other.

Background

Learning Target:Today I am learning about static electricity.

Success Criteria:I can create a model that shows static electricity. .

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When you pull your hat off, it rubs
against your hair (FRICTION) Electrons move from your hat to your hair.

Now each of the hairs has the same negative charge. Things with the same charge repel each other. So the hairs try to move away from each other. The farthest they can get is to stand up and away from all the other hairs.

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Learning Target: Today I am learning about static electricity.

Success Criteria:I can create a model that shows static electricity.

Learning Target: Today I am learning about static electricity.

Success Criteria:I can create a model that shows static electricity.

Match

Match the following atom parts with the correct charge using the images and words below.

• Postive

• Negative

• Neutral

Proton

Electron

Neutron

• Proton

• Electron

• Neutron

Labelling

Label the following electrical charge.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Repulsion

Neutral

Attraction

Draw

Draw an example of an electrical charges that repel.

Use circles to represent the protons or electrons. Make sure to label.

Multiple Choice

Which part of the atom moves from place to place causing electrical charges?

• Proton

• Electron

• Neutron

Categorize

Options (5)

Organize these options into the right categories

Neutral Object

Positive Charged Object

Negatively Charged Object

Drag and Drop

The ​

Placeholder

charges in the girl's hair are attracted to the negative charge in the balloon.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

positive

negative

neutral

static

Multiple Choice

Only negative charges can move from one material to another.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Static electricity can "jump" from the charged object to another object, causing . . .

• static cling (objects sticking together)

• electric discharge (and a shock!)

Multiple Choice

Static electricity is an excess build up of __________.

• protons

• neutrons

• electrons

Multiple Choice

An object becomes electrically charged when the atoms in the object gain or lose

• electrons

• protons

• neutrons

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

When you rub a balloon up against your shirt, the shirt becomes positively charged. This means that

• more protons were created on the shirt.

• electrons left the shirt and moved to the balloon.

• protons left the balloon and moved to the shirt.

• neutrons left the shirt and moved to the balloon.

"Mini Labs Google Slides"

Go to google classroom and open the Mini Labs Google Slides. You will record your answers to the mini labs on your google slides today.