{"id":1480,"date":"2020-04-24T18:37:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/yearr\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2020-04-24T18:37:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:37:22","slug":"science-home-learning-friday-24th-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/yearr\/2020\/04\/24\/science-home-learning-friday-24th-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Home Learning Friday 24th April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Family Science Activity \u2013 Friday 24<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0April &#8211; STATIC MAGIC<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The activity:<\/b>\u00a0Make objects move without touching them by charging them with static electricity.\u00a0<b>ExpeRiment:<\/b>\u00a0with different objects to see how static electricity affects them. Learn about charged particles like electrons and how things gain or lose charge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rigb.org\/families\/experimental\/static-magic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.rigb.org\/families\/experimental\/static-magic<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; for a video clip about the experiment and a full version of the activity information sheet.<\/p>\n<p><b>What you will need:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A balloon \u2022 A cotton towel or T-shirt or a woolly jumper \u2022 Some scrap paper \u2022 A paper\/plastic drinking straw (optional) \u2022 An empty 500ml plastic drinks bottle (optional) \u2022 A hard plastic comb or ruler (optional) \u2022 Other household objects to test.<\/p>\n<p><b>What to do:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charge up a balloon and try picking up scraps of paper with it.<\/li>\n<li>Investigate whether the amount you rub the balloon affects how much paper it can pick up.<\/li>\n<li>Investigate whether the size of the scraps of paper makes a difference.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Find out how close you have to be to the paper before the balloon makes it move.<\/li>\n<li>Try bending a stream of water like Hector does in the video.<\/li>\n<li>Try balancing a straw on top of a bottle lid and seeing if you can make it spin like in the video.<\/li>\n<li>Find out which objects are attracted to the charged up balloon and which are repelled by it.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Try holding a charged balloon near your hair or your skin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Going Further:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Try rolling an empty soft drink can along the ground using a charged up balloon\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/StaticCanRoll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/StaticCanRoll<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Try lighting up a fluorescent lightbulb with a charged up balloon \u2013 as described here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/LightBulbBalloon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/LightBulbBalloon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Try tying two balloons to strings and seeing if you can charge them up with static electricity then hang them up so they repel each other.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about static electricity http:\/\/bit.ly\/ MoreStaticScience<\/p>\n<p><b>HAVE FUN!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Please find the PDF link here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/yearr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Family-Science-Activity-Friday-24th-April.pdf\">Family Science Activity Friday 24th April<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family Science Activity \u2013 Friday 24th\u00a0April &#8211; STATIC MAGIC The activity:\u00a0Make objects move without touching them by charging them with static electricity.\u00a0ExpeRiment:\u00a0with different objects to see how static electricity affects them. Learn about charged particles like electrons and how things gain or lose charge. https:\/\/www.rigb.org\/families\/experimental\/static-magic\u00a0&#8211; for a video clip about the experiment and a full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/yearr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/yearr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/yearr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/yearr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/yearr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/yearr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/yearr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/yearr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/yearr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/yearr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}