Overview
This set of lessons is designed to introduce students to the concept of charge and give students opportunities to:
- Lesson 1: Students use previously developed rules of charge interaction (sticky tape lab exploration) to examine the behavior of charge on conductors.
- Lesson 2: Students vary charge and distance to graphically and mathematically determine Coulomb's Law.
- Lesson 3: Students investigate the mathematical and conceptual behavior of electric fields using point charges and the PhET simulation, Charges And Fields.
This set of lessons is also designed to be integrated with the modeling instruction curriculum unit on electricity and magnetism, charge behavior and interactions.
Underlying Lessons
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards
- Physical Science
- NGSS Practice
- NGSS Crosscutting Concept
Computational Thinking in STEM
- Data Practices
- Modeling and Simulation Practices
- Computational Problem Solving Practices
Credits
Daniel DuBrow & Emily Habbert
Acknowledgement
Electrostatics Model in Lesson #3 (Coulomb's Law)
- Sengupta, P. and Wilensky, U. (2005). NetLogo Electrostatics model. http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Electrostatics. Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Please cite the NetLogo software as:
- Wilensky, U. (1999). NetLogo. http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/. Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Anton, Gabby; Bain, Connor; & Kelter, Jacob.
