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Product 17023

By: The Flinn Staff

Lightning Bells Historical Inventions Laboratory Kit for Physics and Physical Science
Lightning Bells Historical Inventions Laboratory Kit for Physics and Physical Science
Safely reinvent Benjamin Franklin’s lightning bells with this enlightening experiment!

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Where would we be today without electricity? Give your students a memorable understanding of the transfer of electric charge with this history-inspired activity! Students gain appreciation for the process of scientific invention and discovery through a simple setup and procedure that involves the use of a lightning rod, Van de Graaff Generator and metal bells. Safely reinvent Benjamin Franklin’s lightning bells with this enlightening experiment!

Complete for 24 students working in groups of 3. A Van de Graaff Generator is required and available separately.

Correlation to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

Science & Engineering Practices

Asking questions and defining problems
Developing and using models
Planning and carrying out investigations
Obtaining, evaluation, and communicating information

Disciplinary Core Ideas

MS-PS2.B: Types of Interactions
HS-PS2.B: Types of Interactions
HS-PS3.C: Relationship between Energy and Forces

Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns
Systems and system models
Energy and matter

Performance Expectations

MS-PS2-5. Conduct an investigation and evaluate the experimental design to provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the objects are not in contact
HS-PS2-4. Use mathematical representations of Newton’s Law of Gravitation and Coulomb’s Law to describe and predict the gravitational and electrostatic forces between objects.
HS-PS3-5. Develop and use a model of two objects interacting through electric or magnetic fields to illustrate the forces between objects and the changes in energy of the objects due to the interaction.