Monday, June 13, 2016

Static Electricity

Today we played jumping frogs to demonstrate static electricity!
We made some tiny green paper frog faces and tried to create some static electricity to make them jump onto a balloon.
We blew up balloons and held them close to our frogs.
Nothing happened!
Then we rubbed the balloons against our hair and tried again!
The rubbing made our hair stand up on end!
When we held the balloons next to our frogs this time we could see the frogs jump high in the air and cling on to the balloons. The friction (rubbing) between the balloon and the hair created static electricity which pulled the frogs to the balloon.
























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