Content Videos (Lectures and animations to supplement lessons):

• Electrostatics Basics
• Electrostatics: Methods of Charging
• Electrostatics: Coulombs Law
• Source of charge: Electricity
• Leaf electroscope demonstration
• Identification of charge
• Conductors & Insulators

Interactives (Online activities for student interaction & practice with content):

• John Travoltage: Electrostatics Simulation (Make sparks fly with John Travoltage. Students wiggle Johnnie’s foot and he picks up charges from the carpet. Bring his hand close to the door knob and get rid of the excess charge)
• Balloons & Static Electricity (Why does a balloon stick to your sweater? Rub a balloon on a sweater, then let go of the balloon and it flies over and sticks to the sweater. View the charges in the sweater, balloons, and the wall)
• Coulomb’s Law (We are all familiar with static electricity effects. We’ve observed the force that holds two pieces of laundry together when pulled out of the dryer. But not too many people know that the strength of that force follows a relatively predictable scientific law known as Coulomb’s law. In this Interactive, learners will explore Coulomb’s law of electrostatic force)
• Electric Charges Interact (In this interactive activity adapted from NASA, learn about electric charge—a fundamental property of matter. Investigate electric force and how positive and negative charges interact. Experiment with the placement and strength of positive and negative charges to see how the electric force affects the movement of a charged particle)
• Conductors Experiment (student fill the gap in the circuit with various materials to see which ones will conduct electricity and turn on the bulb)
• Insulators Virtual Lab (students use different materials to try and insulate their home from the weather and monitor the temperature inside the house)
• Virtual Leaf Electroscope (students learn how to charge a virtual electroscope by both conduction and induction)

Games (Online games for students to apply & test their content knowledge):

• Charging by Friction, Induction, Direct Contact & Conduction: Match (students match up the electrostatics terminology with real-world examples!)
• Electrostatics Terminology Space Race (Destroy the scrolling words by typing in their corresponding term and pressing enter. You may destroy them in any order, but make sure they don’t scroll past the screen)
• Conductors & Insulators Game (Deadly 60’s Steve is going swimming with electric eels! Which material will protect him from a nasty electric shock?)