Inquiry

As I said in my last blog post, our inquiry for this term is electricity. We have been doing a bit of work on this already. In class, we had a discussion on what things in the classroom need electricity. Mostly everything did because a lot of the things needed electricity to power the machines that made them. We learned about the difference between static electricity and current electricity.

 Static electricity is created by friction. When you rub two materials together it knocks the electrons right off the atoms. The electrons want to find positive atoms since opposites attract.
This is why when you touch a trampoline it gives you a shock.


Current electricity is quite different. Current electricity is where the electrons go from atom to atom. Current electricity goes through power lines and powers buildings and houses. Lighting is a kind of static electricity because it is looking for positive atoms.
This is how lighting works:




Here are some things Mr. Marquand showed us: