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A series of free Science Lessons for 7th Grade and 8th Grade, KS3 and Checkpoint Science in preparation for GCSE and IGCSE Science.

Static Electricity
How electrons can be transferred from one insulator to another to create a static charge?
How this is applied in a Van de Graaff generator?
How static electricity can be dangerous and how we can prevent this?



Exploring Static Electricity
Explores static electricity with wool, balloons, plastic straws and more.
How Do Touchscreens Work?
Your fingertip and the screen act like the plates of a capacitor and the tiny difference in charge between them is used by the computer in the appliance to trigger a response. Static Electricity Fun
See what 500,000 volts of static can do. This experiment uses a van De Graaff electrostatic generator.

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