Have you ever gone down a slide, stepped off, touched something else, and then experienced a great SHOCK? If so, you've experienced static electricity. In class, we learned how every object has negative and positive charges. Negative charges are always wanting to "jump" to positive charges, and when they do - you experience a shock! In this experiment, we have given a balloon a negative charge by rubbing it against wool. We then placed the balloon above a mound of salt. Here's what happened:
The salt jumped up and attached itself to the balloon - WOW! The kids and I were really amazed. It's static electricity in action!
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