Bozeman Science Video - Asking Questions and Defining Problems

• Think about a question or a problem that you have about batteries, magnetism or magnetic fields.

• How could you find more information or learn more about it?

Students learn about static electricity in these fun PhET simulations. A reading about static electricity is included in the worksheet.

You can use this student worksheet to guide your learning - Learning About Static Electricity Using PhET Simulations

You will use these two PHeT simulations for this lesson

• Balloons and Static Electricity

• John Travoltage

Fun extension -You could try out at home one of the static electricity demonstrations that are seen on this video.

• Exploring Static Electricity

Use this worksheet to guide your learning - How is energy transferred and transformed in an electrical circuit? - Worksheet

• To help you with drawing a circuit diagram, watch this video - Circuit Diagram - Simple circuits first

• You use the Labsent video for Activity 66 for this lesson.

Two videos that can help students understand the difference between series and parallel circuits

• Electric Circuits: Series and Parallel

• Electric Circuits - Series and Parallel - For Kids.

Share what you learned about this week.

Optional: Use this Graphic Organizer to help you ask questions or define problems about energy, batteries, magnetism, static electricity or circuits that you might investigate on your own.

Optional investigation students can do on their own

• NSTA - Daily Do - How do charged Objects interact?

Materials: piece of paper and something to write with, an egg carton, paper bag, or plastic container, glue

Challenge #1: Backyard field trip- Use your Senses

Take your paper and pen/pencil outside and find a place to sit quietly for 10 minutes. Spend time writing or drawing what you hear, see, feel, and smell. Then think about these questions: what have you learned about your special place that you didn't know before? Was there anything you expected to hear, smell, or see that you didn't?

Challenge #2: Scavenger Hunt

Find and collect the following items and then create a picture or collage with your items

• Something fuzzy and something rough

• Something straight and something round

• Two kinds of seeds and two pieces of man-made litter

• Two different types of leaves and something green

• Something that makes noise

• A cone, a stick, and a beautiful rock

• Other items of your choice!