Older Kids
9:00-9:15
9:15-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
Younger Kids (Early Birds) Younger Kids (2 hours)
Aynslie
Taylor
Cassidy
Christian
Ana
Bekah
Welcome kids—play games to get to know them and help
them get to know each other
HISRICH’S ROOM: Demonstrations of Van de Graff
generator and “Magic Fuzz”—Mrs. Hisrich will do demos
HISRICH’S ROOM: Static
BAILEY’S ROOM: Coin
Electricity
Battery
Ivy
Julia
Jessi
N/A
RINARD’S ROOM: Welcome
kids—play a couple games
and then do paper circuits
with them
OUTSIDE: Snack Time—Send one of your counselors to the office to get enough snacks
for each kid. Find a nice spot outside to eat snack with your kids. Play a little game with
them after to get to know them better.
BAILEY’S ROOM: Coin
RINARD’S ROOM: Paper
HISRICH’S LAB: Conductivity
Battery
Circuits
Testing
RINARD’S ROOM: Paper
HISRICH’S LAB: Conductivity HISRICH’S ROOM: Static
Circuits
Testing
Electricity
HISRICH’S LAB: Conductivity HISRICH’S ROOM: Static
Testing
Electricity
N/A
Demonstrations
Van de Graff generator—We’ll try if it’s running. Kids place hands on van de graff. The band carries electrons from the
base up to the sphere at the top. When a hand is on the sphere, the electrons flow into the person and coat their hair.
Since all the hairs are covered in electrons, they repel each other, making the hair stand on end. If you let the charge
build up and THEN touch the sphere, it discharges into you, creating spark and giving you a jolt.
Magic fuzz—We’ll touch the 2 electrodes of a 9 volt battery to the “Magic Fuzz”, creating a circuit powered by the
battery. The electricity will ignite the “fuzz,” causing a beautiful fire. The “Magic Fuzz” is mostly iron (Fe), which reacts
with oxygen (O) to make rust (Fe2O3). Basically, you just sped up rusting by igniting it!
Static Electricity (Hisrich’s Room)
Supplies
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Electrophorus (make FROM)
o Styrofoam
o Pie Pan
o Cup
o Tape
Wool & Rabbit Fur
Balloons
Lightbulb (compact fluorescent)
Salt & Ice Cream Sprinkles
Box with metal “wings”
Procedures
Part 1: Electrophorus
1. Make your pie pan electrophorus by taping your cup into your pie pan and laying it on your piece of Styrofoam.
2. Charge it up by removing the pan from the Styrofoam and rubbing the Styrofoam vigorously with the wool or
rabbit fur.
3. Lay your pie pan on the Styrofoam, charging the edges of the pie pan. Make sure you only handle the pan by the
CUP, so the pan can get charged.
4. IF YOU DARE, touch your finger to the edge of your pan to feel a shock. That’s the electrons jumping onto you.
You can pull away the plate and touch the edge again. You should get shocked again, with the electrons jumping
BACK into the pan this time.
5. Turn out the lights!
6. Try to light up the lightbulb using your pie pan (a counselor needs to hold the lightbulb). What’s the best way to
get it to light up? What’s making it light up?
7. Bring the box with the metal wings inside near your pan. See if you can make the wings spread out. Can you
make them go back together? How?
8. Take your electrophorus apart when you’re done trying it.
Part 2: Electrophorus
1. Blow up a balloon. Rub it against your hair.
2. Use it to light up the light bulb. Can you do it?
3. Put some salt and sprinkles in your empty pie pan & then bring your charged balloon near them. What
happens? Watch closely! (Please save the salt and sprinkles in a container for the next group when you’re
done)
4. Draw what you saw below.
Conductivity Testing: YOUNGER KID VERSION (Hisrich’s Lab)
Supplies
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Conductivity Probes (we have light-up and sound versions)
9 Volt Batteries (to power probes)
Things to test for conductivity
o Copper wire
o Zinc wire
o Salt
o Sugar
o Distilled Water
o Salt Water
o Sugar Water
o Food Coloring Water
o Vinegar
o Magic Fuzz
o Yourself
o Something you thought of
Procedures
1. Make your prediction about which things WILL and WILL NOT conduct.
2. Test conductivity of each material. Record your results in the table.
3. Draw your conclusion.
Material Tested
Prediction (YES, it will
conduct or NO, it will not
conduct)
Conducts
Does NOT conduct
Copper wire
Zinc wire
Sugar
Salt
Distilled Water
Salt Water
Sugar Water
Food Coloring Water
Vinegar
Magic Fuzz
Yourself
Conclusion: Based on what I saw today, I believe _______________________ would also conduct and
______________________ would not conduct.
Conductivity Testing: OLDER KID VERSION (Hisrich’s Lab)
Supplies
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9 Volt Battery Clip
9 Volt Batteries (to power probes)
Black and Red Wires
Wire cutters and wire strippers
Electrical tape
LED light
Things to test for conductivity
o Copper wire
o Zinc wire
o Salt
o Sugar
o Distilled Water
o Salt Water
o Sugar Water
o Food Coloring Water
o Vinegar
o Magic Fuzz
o Yourself
Procedures
1. Build your conductivity probe, using the schematic above. The resistor can go EITHER direction, but when you
attach the LED light you need to make sure the SHORTER electrode is on the side of the resistor or it WILL NOT
WORK! The shorter wire of an LED must always be wired to the negative battery terminal for the LED to light
up.
2. Make sure it works by touching both ends of the wire to a piece of copper. Your LED light will light up if your
probe is working!
3. Choose 5 materials to test, recording them in the table below. Make sure to pick some things you think WILL
conduct and some you think will NOT. Record your prediction for each.
4. Test your materials and record data.
5. Draw a conclusion.
Material Tested
Prediction (YES, it will
conduct or NO, it will not
conduct)
Conducts
Does NOT conduct
Coin Batteries (Bailey’s Lab)
Supplies
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Various types of batteries (3 V, AA, AAA, etc)
Coins with copper removed on one side
Paper towels
Salt water
Voltmeters
Procedures
1. Test your various batteries with the voltmeter by turning on the voltmeter to DCV 20 and touching the 2 probes
to the 2 electrodes of the battery. Record each battery’s actual voltage in the table.
Type of Battery
Voltage Measured
3 volt
AAA
AA
9 volt
2. Make a penny battery by sandwiching wet, salty paper towel between pennies. Make sure the copper sides all
face the same way. Measure its voltage with each penny that you add and record them.
# of pennies
Voltage Measured
2
3
4
5
6
7
3. What happened as you added more pennies?
4. Use your coin battery to light up your LED light. Can you do it? Draw what it looks like.
Paper Circuits (Rinard’s Room)
Supplies
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Piece of card stock
3 volt button battery
Adhesive copper tape
Scissors
LED light
Tape
Colored pencils and other stuff to decorate with
Pen or pencil
Procedures
1. Fold over one corner of your paper, covering your 3 volt battery.
2. Trace around the battery on each side of the fold (the fold should cover the top and bottom.
3. Draw lines on your paper showing where you’ll put your copper tape. You need one end of the tape to start on
one side of the battery and one end to start on the other side. The tape shouldn’t quite meet in the middle, but
the strips should lay side by side.
4. Tape down your copper tape, cutting it to fit. You’ll need to peel the adhesive off the back of each piece to get it
to stick, but might want to lay it all out before making it stick.
5. Stick your copper to your paper.
6. See how you need to attach the LED to make it light up. (Hint, the two ends should be touching the 2 different
pieces of copper laying side by side AND the copper must touch both sides of the button battery to close the
circuit.
7. Decorate your paper circuit to make it extra beautiful!