Tuesday, December 14, 2010


You will get a shock out of this!
Just think if we didn't have electricity.  Think about what you do when you get home, now think about what that would be like without electricity.  We use electricity for TV, our homes, and lots of other things too.  On the weekends I play my game.  Now if we didn't have electricity I wouldn't be able to do that.  Most of us have cell phones and laptops and I use mine all the time.  If we didn't have electricity then we could never charge them.  I would hate having them if you couldn't charge them.           


                                                   STATIC ELECTRICITY
There are two things I'm going to talk about today and that's static and current electricity.  Static electricity are just electrons jumping from one object to another.  Static electricity can transfer from things like a metal doorknob to your finger.  If you have on socks the electrons from the rug rub onto the socks and you start to become negatively charged.  So watch where you walk when you have on socks in you house.   



                              
                                CURRENT ELECTRICITY
Current electricity is just the constant flow of electrons.  Current electricity is everywhere.  When you plug in something in your outlet the electrons are going through the plug into the outlet.  Then they go back through the  plug and into the battery.  So without current electricity the world would be a lot different.    



  CONDUCTOR
Have you ever seen a really tall building and the top of it had a pole? Well that's a conductor and the conductor is made of metal.  The lighting is attracted to the pole and  if there's ever a thunderstorm the lighting shoots towards the pole and the it's sent to the ground safely.  Some houses have conductors but mostly the taller buildings have them.        

  

                                          INSULATOR                                  There's also something called an insulator.  It keeps the electricity from going out of control.  Have you seen jumper cables?  The cables have some rubber on them because when you put them on your car there's a shock that could hurt or be life threatening.  So the rubber is something you should always have when you have jumper cables.  Electricity is everywhere so we should have the most out of what we have now because in the future we might not have it.


       



                     
                                  

1 comment:

  1. cool blog but that slide show is distracting

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