Use this static electricity reading to teach students about static electricity and how charges can be transferred by friction, conduction, and induction.
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In this activity, students will:
- READ the article Static Electricity.
- ANSWER text-dependent questions. No prior knowledge is required. All the information needed to answer the questions comes from the text.
Topics include:
- What is static electricity?
- What is static discharge?
- Objects with a negative charge have gained electrons and objects with a positive charge have lost electrons.
- Charges can be transferred by friction, conduction, and induction.
- How does lightning work?
Teacher Notes:
- Includes a digital Google Slides option to assign. A link to make a digital copy is included in the downloadable PDF.
- Includes an answer key.
- Please note that this static electricity reading is not editable.
- NGSS Content Standards: NGSS MS-PS2-3 and MS-PS2-5
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Related Standards:
- NGSS MS-PS2-3: Ask questions about data to determine the factors that affect the strength of electric and magnetic forces.
- NGSS MS-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.
