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St. Colman's Primary School, Kilkeel

Floating ghosts STEM challenge in P4 👻

23rd Oct 2023

Today P4 investigated the effects of static electricity⚡️


Our Aim: Make a tissue ghost dance 

Explaining the science: 
⚡️This experiment demonstrates static electricity.
⚡️When you rub the balloon on your hair, jumper, carpet tiny particles with negative charge build up on the surface
of the balloon.
⚡️These have the power to pull very light objects with a positive charge towards them. This causes the tissue ghost to move towards the balloon and “dance.”

What did we discover: 
🧪Rubbing the balloon on our hair created the most static electricity
🧪Little static energy was created if gel was in hair
🧪The smaller the ghost the less static electricity was needed to make the ghost dance
🧪Too much static electricity made the tissue paper stick to the ballon 

Take a look at our pics 📸