Static and Current Electricity Reading Activity
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Teach your students about static electricity, friction, and their charges, as well as current electricity, insulators, conductors, electric charges, switches, and electrical circuits using printable packets or digital activities. Students will study both static electricity and current electricity.
Students will learn:
- What static electricity is
- How it is formed
- Negative charges and how they impact static electricity
- Friction and static discharge
- How lightning is formed
- Current electricity
- Electrical circuits
This lesson includes:
- Digital instructions to use the Google Slides version with your students through your secure learning system such as Google Classroom, Schoology, or Canvas
- 4 worksheets of reading on static electricity and comprehension questions to assess student learning
- 14 page packet that covers:
- Electrical charges
- Lightning
- Current electricity
- Insulators and conductors
- Types of switches
- Electrical circuit
- Series and parallel circuits
- Ohm's law
- 3 Graphic organizers
- Answer key
How to use this electricity activity in your classroom:
- Science station
- Introduction to electricity
- Review materials
- Homework assignment
- Sub plans
Check out feedback from teachers:
- Very well done! Love the reading/science tie and that you included answer keys!
- Great activity! Students always enjoy something that they can relate and see in their lives.
- Thanks so much for this high-quality Science resource! I used this at my Science station! The students loved it!
- Perfect addition to my fourth grade class.
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