Static Electricity
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Subject Area: Science | Grade Level: 5
Lesson Length: 1 hour
Keywords/Tags: Static Electricity
Lesson Description: In this lesson, the students will learn about static electricity. This includes how it can be created and real-life examples of it with key vocabulary words including electricity, static electricity, atoms, charges.

  • Other S5P2. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to investigate electricity.rna. Obtain and combine information from multiple sources to explain the difference betweenrnnaturally occurring electricity (static) and human-harnessed electricity.
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Video : What is static electricity?
Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.
Description: Bill Nye breaks down static electricity!
Quiz : Static Electricity
Instructions: Please complete this quiz by choosing the correct answer for each question. You can take this quiz as many times needed.
Question #1
Static electricity is from a word that means?
Question #2
A static charge occurs when electrons ________  _________ on something.
Question #3
There is an old saying that says "opposite's ___________".
Question #4
Clothes taken out of the dryer often stick together. This is called ____________  ___________.
Question #5
When electrons jump off of things, scientists say that they ________________.
Question #6
The ground wire runs from the machine right to the main cold _______________  _______________?
Question #7
In Bill Nye's story time, he mentions that long ago pine tree sap hardened into a gold-colored substance we call ________________. 
Question #8
What is the Greek word for amber?
Question #9
The safest place to be in a thunderstorm is in your _____________________.
Question #10
Static electricity isn't always static. That is, it doesn't always _____  ____  _____  _____.
Description: This is a 10-question short answer quiz based off of the Bill Nye video.
Resources : Static Electricity Resources
Instructions: Please see additional external resources below. Feel free visit each link to learn more about this lesson.
Flocabulary
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BrainPop
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ReadWorks
ReadWorks contains passages and follow-up questions that includes science topics.
Description: Interactive resources for static electricity.