It's Electric!

This morning's Science Saturdays session was truly electrifying! We explored circuits by coming up with hypotheses on which items were conductors of electricity and which were not. We learned that in order for electricity to flow through a circuit it needed to be a closed system, meaning it must start and end at the same location. This was demonstrated via the use of an energy stick which functions via the electricity that exists within our own bodies. We learned that if we all held hands this creates a closed circuit, which caused the energy stick to glow and make noise.

We also explored static electricity and performed an experiment where we separated salt and pepper by using a balloon. It was a lot of fun to see your young scientist come up with ways to charge the balloon in order to help it attract the pepper away from the salt.