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Welcome - all of my 2025/2026 curriculum and resources for 7th grade science will be posted here! (Work in Progress)
Essential Question:
How can we use the principles of static electricity to improve our daily lives?"
This question is important because it encourages students to think about how the scientific concepts they are learning can be applied to solve real-world problems. By exploring the ways in which static electricity can be harnessed and utilized, students can gain a deeper understanding of the topic and its relevance to their lives. Additionally, this question allows students to think creatively about how they can use scientific knowledge to create new solutions and innovations.
UNLOCK THE BIG QUESTIONS! (SWBAT answer)
Explain how friction, induction, and conduction create static electricity.
Describe how objects with like charges interact and how objects with opposite charges interact.
Describe ways that static charges can be released.
Unit Summary: Static Electricity - From Chat GPT
Static electricity is a type of electricity that builds up on the surface of an object when electrons move from one surface to another through friction. To understand static electricity, it's important to understand the parts of an atom. Atoms are made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Protons have a positive charge, neutrons have no charge, and electrons have a negative charge.
When two objects come into contact, electrons can be transferred from one object to the other. This happens because of the forces of attraction and repulsion between charged particles. Objects with opposite charges attract each other, while objects with the same charge repel each other.
The distance between two charged objects also affects the strength of the electric force. The closer the objects are, the stronger the force of attraction or repulsion between them. As the distance between the objects increases, the force between them decreases.
Static electricity can have some interesting effects, such as causing clothes to stick together or making your hair stand up. It can also be dangerous in some situations, such as when it causes sparks that can ignite flammable materials.
Overall, static electricity is a fascinating and important concept in science that helps us understand how the world around us works.
7.MS-PS2-5. Use scientific evidence to argue that fields exist between objects with mass, between magnetic objects, and between electrically charged objects that exert force on each other even though the objects are not in contact.
7.MS-PS3-2. Develop a model to describe the relationship between the relative positions of objects interacting at a distance and their relative potential energy in the system
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