Describes the nature of electricity and dramatizes simple precautions for avoiding electric shocks. Rex and Judy convene a meeting of the Science Alliance and talk about electricity and how it can be generated. They discuss the people who discovered it, describe static and current electricity, and demonstrate how electricity can pass through certain items. 8 minutes Resistance, conductors and insulators are demonstrated. Electricity Kit Kit Materials to support the grade 6 unit on Electricity.
Materials permit whole class activities and small group activities.
All necessary cards and equipment for 25 experiments. Direct Current Electricity Kit Kit is designed to carry out 11 different direct current experiments. Electromagnetism Kit Kit is designed to carry out 10 experiments on electomagnetism. Electrostatics Kit Kit is designed to carry out two experiments on static electricity. Demonstrates the basic principles involved.