Static electricity is so much more than a shock on the doorknob or flyaway hair…Everything in our daily lives would be technologically undone had people like Benjamin Franklin, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, and Alessandro Volta not done their science-y thing, all during the chaos of the American and French Revolutions!
Angels! Angels I tell you! (bwahahahahaha!!!!)
RESOURCES FOR THIS UNIT
- Lesson Plan with Unit Objectives and Homework Problems
- Lab – Charging
- Lab – Electric Field
- Guided Notes
Full teacher notes available by request via email to Michelle.Burgess@avonlakecityschools.org
from an official educational institution email address.
HELPFUL WEBSITES
- PhET Baloons and Static Electricity (simple but fun)
- PhET Charges and Fields
- PhET Electric Field Hockey (the ultimate quasi-academic time waster!)
- PhET Electric Field of Dreams
- PhET Battery Voltage
- PhET Capacitor Lab
- Animation of charging by induction
- Animation of a capacitor