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Class: Class 12 - Section A Subject: Physics Chapter: Electric Charges and Fields
Title
Electric Charges Lesson Plan

Start date – End date

Overall Goals
1. The student is able to make claims about natural phenomena based on conservation of electric charge.  
2. The student is able to make predictions, using conservation of electric charge, about the sign and relative quantity of net charge
of objects or systems after various charging processes, including conservation of charge in simple circuits.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of subatomic particles, valence electrons

Details
In class:

Begin by turning off the lights in the classroom for five seconds.
Now turn them back on for five seconds, off again for two seconds, and then back on.
Ask the students to consider what was happening as the light flickered in class and discuss this briefly as a class.

Rub a balloon on the hair of a student and demonstrate static electricity and ask students why this might be happening.

Describe how electrons jump from the balloon creating static electricity.

Use the attached presentation to teach.

Activity:
Scotch Tape Experiment:
 • Tear of two 15 cm pieces of scotch tape and fold the first few centimeters of sticky
sides together. Place the two strips sticky side down on a table parallel to each other.
Rub the tape then pull off the table quickly.
• Then hold the two strips apart from each other and gradually bring closer together
and record on the Worksheet what happens.
• Repeat the process varying the length of the tape and the amount the tape is rubbed.
• Next place one strip on the table sticky side down and then place the second strip on
top of it and rub the top strip. Pull the two strips off together, then separate, hold apart
and then gradually bring closer together. Record on the Worksheet what happens.
• Repeat the process varying the length of the tape and the amount the tape is rubbed.
Plastic Tube Experiment:
• Place the plastic tube over each of small pieces of paper, cereal, salt, and table
tennis balls in turn and record your observations on the Worksheet.
• Rub the plastic tube with the wool cloth and repeat the process for the different
materials.

Time
40 mins or 1 period

Content in Bamboo
Electric Charges Presentation Electric Charges Interactive Video Electric Charges Quiz

Electric Charges Game Electric Charges Assignment Balloons and Static Electricity

Coulomb's Law

Skills
Students will identify two types of charge (positive & negative), will observe the charging of various objects by friction, and understand
that like charges repel and different charges attract.

Evaluations
Conduct attached quiz.

Remediations
Recap atomic structure and concept of free electrons if students are struggling to understand.