During this Unit, students will conduct several investigations focused on basic concepts of electricity. Through experimentation and observation, students will explore static electricity and electrical current.
Through various activities and investigations, students will find that the surfaces of objects can have a positive charge, negative charge, or be neutral based on the charged particles on the surface of the object.
This Unit gives students the opportunity to examine electrical current by creating circuits.
This Unit will broaden students’ knowledge of static electricity and electrical current, enabling them to have a greater understanding of and appreciation for the vast world of electricity which surrounds them. This greater understanding will better enable students to safety utilize the electricity which fuels their everyday lives.
Conceptual Themes addressed in this Unit:
- Energy
- Properties of Matter