Basic Electricity Program

Fourth - Sixth Grades - 60 Minutes

  • Discussion: Basics of Electricity; Discoveries; Inventions; and Changes in Lifestyles Due to Electricity
  • Experiments with Static Electricity Using:
    • Vandergraff Machine
    • Transformation of Energy
    • Electromagnetic Field Demonstration
    • Making Circuits
    • How to Measure Electricity
  • Terms Taught
    • Volts
    • Electrons
    • Magnetism
    • Watts
    • Circuits
    • Turbines
    • Generation
    • Transformers
    • Conductors
    • Insulators
  • "Zap-Rap" Video