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What is static charge?
This lab exercise uses ordinary household materials to explore static charge.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
By Leigh Kiser.

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Static electricity and lightning
In this lesson, students will explore a variety of websites to learn about lightning. They will then explain, in their own words, what causes lightning and how it is related to static electricity. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 9–12 Science)
Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Introducing static electricity
Students perform simple experiments creating static electricity. They will demonstrate how opposite charges attract each other and like charges repel each other. Then students will explore a website that further explains these concepts. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 7–12 Science)
Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Theater of Electricity
This site about electricity contains instructional videos, photos, links to related and useful resources, a safety quiz, activities to explore static electricity (which are almost complete lesson plans), teacher resources, links, a photo gallery, and more. (Learn more)
Format: website/activity
Provided by: Museum of Science, Boston
Introducing atoms
In this lesson from Science NetLinks, students will be asked to review websites to learn about the atom's basic structure and the positive and negative charges of its subparticles. This is the first of a series of four lessons about static electricity. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 7–12 Science)
Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science