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Exploring Forces - Static Electricity (NanoDays 2011 and 2012)

[1] : Facilitated activity [2]

Exploring Forces - Static Electricity (NanoDays 2011 and 2012)

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Overview
Exploring Forces - Static Electricity (NanoDays 2011 and 2012)
Rae Ostman [4]
NISE Network product
image/jpeg iconimg_2799_2.jpg [5]

Description: 

"Exploring Forces - Static Electricity" is a hands-on activity in which visitors discover that electrostatic forces cause smaller balls to be suspended in a tube while larger ones fall to the bottom. They learn that size can affect the way a material behaves.
Objectives

Big Idea: 

A material can act differently when it's nanometer-sized

Learning goals: 

  • A material can act differently when it's nanometer-sized.
  • Different physical forces dominate when things get very, very small

NISE Net Content Map: 

  • Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.

Universal design: 

  • Provide multiple entry points and multiple ways of engagement
Credits

Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 0532536 and 0940143. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

Owning institution:

Sciencenter [6]

Checklist

Scientist reviewed? check_reviewed
Peer reviewed? check_reviewed
Visitor evaluation? check_reviewed

Nano Topics

[7]

Audience

[8]

Tags

[9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15]

Permissions

Creative Commons license image [16]
Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Catalog section: 

Programs

What kind of program?: 

Facilitated activity

Nano topics: 

Fundamentals

Audience: 

All ages

Content keywords: 

nanodays
forces
forces
static electricity
staticbeads
beads
static

Highlight this product during NanoDays?: 

This is a NanoDays product.

K-12: 

This product would be useful for K-12 teachers.
Standards

Science and Technology: 

K-4: Abilities of technological design
5-8: Abilities of technological design
9-12: Abilities of technological design

Physical science: 

K-4: Properties of objects and materials
5-8: Properties and changes of properties in matter
9-12: Motions and forces
9-12: Structure and properties of matter

Science as inquiry: 

K-4: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
5-8: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
9-12: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
Resources
Spanish
Download zip file [3]

Download all files (ZIP) [3]

Files: 

application/msword iconExploring Forces Static Electricity - Guide [17]
application/pdf iconExploring Forces Static Electricity - Guide [18]
application/pdf iconExploring Forces Static Electricity - Sign [19]
application/vnd.ms-excel iconExploring Forces Static Electricity- Sources [20]

Spanish files: 

application/msword iconExploring Forces Static Electricity - Guide (Spanish) [21]
application/pdf iconExploring Forces Static Electricity - Guide (Spanish) [22]
application/pdf iconExploring Forces Static Electricity - Sign & Guide (Spanish) [23]
Comments
Source URL: http://nisenet.org/catalog/programs/exploring_forces_-_static_electricity_nanodays_2011_2012

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[6] http://nisenet.org/community/organizations/sciencenter
[7] http://nisenet.org/category/nano-interests/fundamentals
[8] http://nisenet.org/category/audience/all_ages
[9] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/nanodays
[10] http://nisenet.org/category/files-keywords/forces
[11] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/forces
[12] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/static_electricity
[13] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/staticbeads
[14] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/beads
[15] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/static
[16] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
[17] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/5395/forcesstatic_guide_15nov10.doc
[18] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/5395/forcesstatic_guide_15nov10.pdf
[19] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/5395/forcesstatic_sign_15nov10_0.pdf
[20] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/5395/static_electricity_sources.xls
[21] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/5395/forcesstatic_guide_20feb11_sp_0.doc
[22] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/5395/forcesstatic_guide_20feb11_sp_0.pdf
[23] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/5395/forcesstatic_sign_20feb11_sp.pdf