Students can learn about electrical conductors and insulators in the Middle School Gateways activity, Flow of Electricity . If necessary, have students use their textbooks or the Internet to answer these questions. Use your imagination. Extending the Problem Students can learn about the other 2000 Nobel prize winners, as well as winners from previous years, at the Nobel e-Museum . Students create a battery from their skin and two different metals.
Students build a simple electroscope, a device that detects electrical charge.
Students can learn more about the history of plastics at the Sandretto Plastics Museum . Riverdeep Interactive Learning Limited. All rights reserved.