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The document serves as an introduction to electricity, outlining activities that utilize electricity and prompting reflections on its absence. It includes questions and activities related to the basics of electricity, such as static electricity, current electricity, circuits, and safety during lightning storms. Additionally, it encourages research on notable scientists who contributed to the understanding of electricity and includes a word search activity.

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01. Introduction to Electricity (1)

The document serves as an introduction to electricity, outlining activities that utilize electricity and prompting reflections on its absence. It includes questions and activities related to the basics of electricity, such as static electricity, current electricity, circuits, and safety during lightning storms. Additionally, it encourages research on notable scientists who contributed to the understanding of electricity and includes a word search activity.

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Introduction to Electricity:

Introduction to Electricity:
Before the Program
1. List all of your daily activities that use some form of electricity. This could include using an electric tooth-brush,
listening to the television, radio or even using a toaster.

2. One hundred years ago people did not have such a convenient form of energy available to them. Write a
paragraph describing how different your life would be if there was no electricity.
Introduction to Electricity:

Introduction to Electricity:
During the Program
1. What was the first example of electricity seen by the earliest humans?

2. What is amber?

a. What did Thales discover he could pick up with rubbed amber?

b. What does the word electricity and electron mean?

3. What two materials were rubbed together in the demonstration to show static electricity?

4. What are all substances around us made up of?

a. The positively charged particles in the atoms are called?

b. The negatively charged particles in the atom are called?

5. When the number of protons and electrons are NOT equal, the object becomes?

6. Circle the correct answer. Opposite charges attract repel

a. Give two examples of where you can become charged.

b. Circle the correct answer. Opposite charges attract, but the same charges attract repel
Introduction to Electricity:

c. When strands of hair stand on end, do the strands have the same or opposite charges?

7. What is current electricity?

8. What type of material are electrical wires made of?

9. The particles that move in a wire when an electric current is flowing are called?

10. What do we call the completed pathway through which electricity flows?

11. What provides the energy needed to push the electrons along a wire?

12. An electric circuit in which two globes are in the same path is called a ___________ circuit.

13. A circuit in which two globes are in their own path is called a ___________circuit.

14. The word used to describe how well a material can conduct electricity is?

15. In each case below, circle the wire that has the greatest resistance.

a. A long piece of wire or a shorter piece of the same wire?

b. A thin piece of wire or a thicker piece of the same wire?

16. a. What do we call material that is not good at carrying electricity?

17. Give two examples of insulating materials.


Introduction to Electricity:

18. Which situations below are safe in a lightning storm? Write ‘safe’ or ‘not safe’ for each.

a. Inside an aeroplane.

b. Inside a stationary car.

c. In a sailing boat.

d. Under a tree.

e. Inside a metal shed with timber posts.

19. The unit of electricity, measuring the rate at which electrons move around the wire, is called?

20. What do we call the force, provided by batteries, with which the electrons are pushed around the wire?

21. What are the two sources of electricity mentioned?

22. What is a fossil fuel commonly used to generate electricity?

23. List three renewable sources of energy mentioned.

24. How many more times efficient is a compact fluorescent globe compared to a traditional incandescent one?
Introduction to Electricity:

Introduction to Electricity:
After the Program

1. Research one of the scientists listed below who have made an important contribution to the development of our
understanding of Electricity. In each case find out the following information about them:

a. The date of their birth and death.

b. Where (country and city) they lived and carried out their work.

c. A description of their discoveries and how this contributed to the understanding of electricity.

d. When they made these discoveries.

Scientists to research: Thales of Miletus, William Gilbert, Otto von Guericke, Robert Boyle, Pieter van
Musschenbroek, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Priestley, Luigi Galvani, Alessandro Volta, Michael Farraday, Georg
Simon Ohm, Thomas Edison, William Stanley, Nikola Tesla.

2. Create a word search using following words:

AMBER
AMPERE
ATOMS
ATTRACT
BATTERY
CIRCUIT
CONDUCTOR
CURRENT
ELECTRICITY
ELECTRON
GENERATOR
INSULATOR
LIGHTNING
OHM
PARALLEL
PROTON
REPEL
RESISTANCE
SERIES
STATIC
VOLT or VOLTAGE

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