Hi Everyone,
Jan Mader and I are looking forward to our web seminar, January 30th. It will be interactive and I invite you to grab a roll of scotch magic tape, a balloon, if you have one handy and your good questions and meet us online. Meanwhile, be sure to browse the static electricity and other resources on ThePhysicsFront.org and take our short quiz.
“See” you soon,
Cathy Ezrailson
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Friday, January 26th, 2007 10:21 am
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This is my first time to participate in a Web Seminar and I am very excited about it. I am looking forward to learning what “Charging into Electrostatics” is all about. The information about static electricity was very informational and I am interested to see what we our going to do with scotch magic tape and a balloon. Things like this are a wonderful way for me to prepare to teach my future students. Thank you!
Emily Gaskamp
Texas A&M University
Class of 2007
I’m really excited about doing this online seminar. I have never done anything thing like this, but it sounds really fun! Hopefully there will be things I can use in my future classroom! The way it was described in class, it sounds like a very useful seminar!
Jenny Nardecchia
Texas A&M University
Hi Emily and other participants,
Here are a couple of questions to think about before participating in our web seminar on static electricity.
1) What kind of charges did Benjamin Franklin describe when he was experimenting with electricity?
2) What kinds of natural phenomena are caused by static charge building up or released?
Find resources to answer these and other questions about electricity, electrostatics and a host of other information on The Physics Front. Find it at http://thephysicsfront.org the AAPT’s K-12 Physics and Astronomy Digital Library for teachers and their students.
“See” you soon,
Cathy Ezrailson
Hi Dr. E,
I am very excited that this seminar will involve a fun science experiment that I may be able to do with my future class. I think that this seminar will be beneficial and can’t wait! -Erica Oldag
Hi there, this is Maria Rathjen. I am intersted in the word electrostatics and am excited to learn more abouta it at hte web seminar. I will be looking forward to seeing what we will do with the tape and ballon. I am sure I will have more questions after the seminar.
Maria Rathjen
Texas A&M
Class of 2007
Hi! I have never done a web seminar before, but I am very excited about seeing what it is going to be all about as well as about electrostatics. I beleive this seminar will give me great ideas and experiments to help my future students understand the topic. I look forward to the interactive part of th seminar and learning more about electrostatics!
Traci Hazzard
Texas A&M
Class of 2008
Howdy! I really don’t know what to expect from this web seminar. I really like science and find it very interesting so I’m sure it will be enjoyable. My favorite part of science is being able to do experiments. I especially love to watch kids do science experiments for the first and see the expressions on their faces. I hope to new things about electrostatics.
Denise McDougal
Texas A&M
Class of 2007
I am excited about this seminar, I enjoy science- especially experiments! I think that the information presented in the seminar will be interesting and useful to me when I begin teaching. I am looking forward to learning!
Katherine Farish
Texas A&M
Before the seminar I was very hesitant because I was worried about sitting at a computer for a long period of time watching a video. Much to my surprise the seminar was extremely live and interactive! I enjoyed being able to participate and not just listen to someone lecture. Having the opportunity to become engaged in the lesson kept me interested and motivated throughout! Not only was the chat fun and humorous but the information provided made science fun and entertaining and I also learned a great deal. I thoroughly enjoyed this web seminar and am looking forward to another one.
Thank you,
Alisa Mayerchak
This is an interesting way to learn about information. I am enjoying this information and hope to learn much more about Static Electricity.
In addition to my previous comment, I really liked the tape and hair experiments! I remember doing similar experiments and found them so interesting. These would be fun and exciting ways to teach static electricity and make the learning experience meaningful and active.
This was my first time participating in an online seminar, and I felt it was very beneficial to my overall knowledge of scientific information regarding static electricity. Prior to beginning the seminar, I was uncertain of what static electricity was. I soon discovered that it was an imbalance in the amount of positive and negative charges found on the surface of objects. I thoroughly enjoyed the online experiments that were demonstrated. As a future educator, I feel such experiments will help motivate and engage students to participate in classroom discussions on static electricity and its relation to negative and positive charges. Overall, I enjoyed this seminar and I believe it was beneficial not only to my own understanding of the science content but also to the classroom curriculum of future students.
Hi, I liked the seminar it was really informational and interesting. I like science because its a hands on subject, so you are able to have visual aids infront of you which helps me understand experiments. I liked the website for physics, I think that it will be very helpful for present and future teachers. I had never learned about electrostatics so it was really nice to get an introduction into this theme.
Wow! That was interesting how it was so interactive and we could answer questions and see the poll results instantly. The experiments were interesting yet not time consuming. I learned a lot more about the technology available to teachers. I would definitely tune into workshops offered in this manner. Great job!!
Amanda Barragan
Texas A&M
Class of 2007
This has been a really beneficial experience. I have never been involved in an online web seminar, but I really enjoyed it. This has been a great way to learn more about electricity and also learn about different experiements to use in my future classrooms. From this seminar I also learned how much I have forgotten about static electricity and negative and positive charges! I thought the experiment using the tape and also the balloon experiment were really interesting and something that could easily be done in class. It was interesting to see how other teachers and fellow students answered some of the volunteer questions. I also have never really thought about what lighting is or what is does. It was interesting learning about how lightning is like static electricity, and how the attraction between opposite charges is what causes it.
This was my first time to participate in a web seminar. At first I was worried that I would not be able to easily navigate the site, but it was very easy to use. I felt that the information was a little difficult to comprehend at times, but the quizes given throughout the session helped me to monitor my understanding. All in all it was a good first experience.
Sarah Jernigan
Texas A&M
Class of 2008
This was my first web seminar and I really did not know what to expect. I thoguht the presenters did a great job of keeping the “audience” involved by having the quizzes. The quizzes also showed me what I did and didn’t know. For example, on the last quiz where the electrons were being transferred I thoguht the change was temporary and learned that it was permanent because the two objects were seperated. I was highly surprised to see that there were no major technical problems! This was a great experience as a preservice teacher!
Alicia Packer
Texas A&M University
Class of 2008
Like many other people, this was my first web seminar. I was surprised to see how interactive it was! I believe that the seminar was very beneficial to me as a future educator. The information provided about static electricity definetly reminded me about science facts that I had forgotten. I also liked the experiments that were shown. These experiments are easy to carry out in an elementary school classroom and would help students to better understand the information that is being presented. I think elementary school children would love the comb experiment! When planning science lessons for my future class, I will definetly reference the notes taken during this seminar. I believe this was a very effective method of teaching and would enjoy taking part in another one due to how interactive it was.
1) Benjamin Franklin named the charges he worked with positive and negative. He learned about these charges through various scientific experiments, specifically the kite experiment. We owe a great deal to him and his experiments.
2) Lightning is the main natural phenomena caused by static electricity build up. Benjamin Franklin recognized the fact that lightning can be useful and dangerous.
I really enjoyed the web seminar. This was a very unique way of communicating and teaching. ThePhysicsFront.org is very helpful and provides lots of useful information on various topics that can be incorporated into the classroom. Thank you!
I had never participated in an online seminar before “Charging into Electrostatics,” and I thought this was a really good experience. I liked how interactive it was, and how we could ask questions and chat all throughout the presentation. I must confess that there were several things discussed that confused me a bit, but reading over the powerpoints should clear them up. The experiments were neat and should be useful in my future classroom one day.
Ashton (and everyone who added their comments)
Thanks for participating in the seminar, glad that you all enjoyed it. I hope it helps you and gives you another tool in your toolbox. You were a great group, I’m so glad you all could attend. Let us know how we can help you!
Ashton: Thanks for your honesty about understanding some of the concepts. Feel free to post some of your questions here on the blog. You never know, there may be others who have the same questions that you have and as Dr. Ezrailson said, there are misconceptions about electrostatics that we as educators need to make sure we understand so we can prevent our students from holding onto those misinformed notions on the topic!
Robert
I really enjoyed the web seminar. I found the seminar to be very informative, and it was also very interactive which made it better. I have never participated in a web seminar but I found this one helpful because we were connected to others and to the presenters, which helped with questions. I like how it gave us many ideas of lessons and experiments that we could use in the classroom, and it also cleared up some common misconceptions that we have about particular elements in science.
1) What kind of charges did Benjamin Franklin describe when he was experimenting with electricity?
He described them as positive and negative charges. His idea was that an object that has excess electricity is called positive, if it has a deficit we call it negative and an uncharged body is neutral. Franklin also wrongly thought that there was only one type of electricity.
Benjamin Franklin is more famous for flying kites in thunderstorms in his study of lightening.
2) What kinds of natural phenomena are caused by static charge building up or released?
Lightning is a gigantic electrostatic discharge between the cloud and the ground, other clouds, or within a cloud.
Texas A&M
1) Benjamin worked with positive and negative charges, which students learn about today.
2) Lightning is the most known bulid up of static.
1) Benjamin Franklin learned about the negative and positive charges through experiment.
2)Lightning is a natural phenomena caused by static electricity build up. Benjamin Franklin was able to experiment this phenomena throught his experiment with the kite.
-Franklin worked with both positive and negative charges.
-Once static bulid-up occurs, lightning takes place.
This was my first web seminar, I must say I enjoyed it very much. I loved the interactive activities that we had to partake in!
1) Benjamin Franklin described both postive and negative charges in his experiments.
2) Lightning is an electrostatic discharge that occurs between a variety of clouds and the ground thus creating lightning.
This web seminar was great! This was my first one and I really enjoyed it! I would definitely do another one in the near future. I really enjoyed how it was interactive too, it made electrostatics so much fun to learn. I feel that this seminar helped me to learn more about electrostatics! The seminar included fun activities to include in your own classroom too!
1) Benjamin Franklin described both positive and negative charges.
2) Lightening occurs when there is a buildup of static electricity when the opposite charges attract between the clouds and the trees.
1. According to page 24 of Franklin and Electrostatics–Benjamin Franklin as my Lab Partner, the “electric tubes” that Franklin created so many of, carried a positive charge (Morse 2004). However it is logical that because Franklin conducted so many experiments with electricity he would have worked with both positive and negative charges.
2. According to the United States Research and Rescue Task Force website, during thunderstorms water drops and ice crystals crash into each other repeatedly and this causes static electricity that when built up enough causes lighting, a natural phenomenon, to occur. The sound of thunder is created by the discharge. (http://www.ussartf.org/predicting_weather.htm)
I enjoyed the interactiveness of the seminar very much!
1 – Benjamin Franklin descibed his charges as vitreous and resinous, both were fluids. Franklin worked with the fluids to later refer to the charges as positive, (too much fluids), negative, (lacking fluids) or neutral, (normal amount).
2 - Static charge building up and being released cause natural phenomenas such as lightning, which Benjamin Franklin noted to be beneficial as well as harmful.
1) Benjamin Franklin discovered both positive and negative charges in his experiment with lightning.
2) Static charge building up and being released causes the natural phenomena, lightning.
1. Benjamin Franklin worked with both positive and negative charges. It is amazing to think that he figured out SO much without ever having the high-tech machines and computers we use today.
2. Lightning is one natural phenomena that is caused by the release of static charge. I don’t know much about it, but does the release of static electricity have anything to do with the Aurora Borealis, or the Northern Lights??
1.) Franklin used the terms negative and positive charges.
2.) One natural phenomena is lighting, and when your hair stands up straight sometimes. Something else I would suggest is the shock that occurs sometimes when touching another individual on the arm or something, or when you get out of a vechile. The shock you get when you close your car door is based off of static electricity.
This was my first web seminar, and I found it really interesting. It was not what I expected. I enjoyed how it was interactive, which kept me more involved and interested.
1) Benjamin Franklin described positive and negative charges during his experiment.
2) Lightning is a natural phenomena caused by the build up and release of static charge.
- Ben Franklin referred to two different kinds of charges positive and negative. Other words that he used were: battery, charge, condenser, conductor, plus, minus, positively, negatively, armature
-Lightening is one big phenomena, another is when you get a small shock from touching a door handle or another person; also when clothes or hair have static.
1. Benjamin Franklin worked with both positive and negative charges when experimenting with electricity.
2. The most common natural phenomena of static charge build up or release is lightning. That is one powerful spark!!
- Benjamin Franklin described positive and negative charges. He learned about these charges through various scientific experiments, mainly throught the kite experiment.
- Lightning is the main natural phenomena caused by static electricity build up.
1) What kind of charges did Benjamin Franklin describe when he was experimenting with electricity?
He worked with negative and positive charges.
2) What kinds of natural phenomena are caused by static charge building up or released?
Lightning occurs.
1) What kind of charges did Benjamin Franklin describe when he was experimenting with electricity?
B.F. described negative and positive charges during his infamous kite experiment.
2) What kinds of natural phenomena are caused by static charge building up or released?
A natural phenomena caused by static charge buildup or release is lighting.
1) Benjamin Franklin described both positive and negative charges when he was experimenting with electricity.
2) A Natural phenomena caused by static charges building up or released is lightning.
1) Benjamin Franklin discovered and described positive and negative charges while experimenting with electricity.
2) Lightning is the most important natural phenomena caused by static charges building up or being released.
1) Benjamin Franklin experimented with both positive and negative charges.
2) Lightning is the most known natural phenomena that occurs when static electricity is built up.
1) Benjamin Franklin named the charges he worked with positive and negative.
2) Lightning is the main natural phenomena caused by static electricity build up.
Ben Franklin named the charges he worked with as negative and positive but he also thought them as liquid. He described a positive charge as having to much and a negative as having too little.
Lightning is a natural phenomena that occurs from static electricity. I really didn’t know much about it but it was very interesting.
Before participating in the “Charging Electrostatics” web seminar, I had never done one before. I felt it was very informative and also very interactive. However, I feel that the information presented was very confusing and wasn’t explained all that well. I think web seminars would be a neat way for students to participate in learning when compared to traditional methods, however, not every child may have access to a computer.
I really enjoyed this seminar. By attending, I was not only reminded of many scientific principles I had forgotten, but also I was able to watch and participate in scientific experiments, etc. that I had not yet had the priviledge of experiencing. Furthermore, my answers to the questions are as follows:
1) Benjamin Franklin described both positive and negative charges when he was experimenting with electricity.
2) Lighting is a natural phenomena that is caused by static charges building up or released.
1. Ben Franklin created negative and postive charges.
2. The natural phenomena that is caused by a bulid up of static electricty is lightning.
(1) Benjamin Franklin described negative and positive charges when he was experimenting with electricity.
(2) A natural phenomena caused by static charge buildup or release is lightning.
1. Benjamin Franklin described positive and negative charges.
2. Lightning is a natural phenomena caused by the build up and release of static charge.
1. Benjamin Franklin described both positive and negative charges.
2. The natural phenomena lightning is caused by a build up or release of static charge.
I enjoyed this web seminar, it was great to see Dr. Ezrailson going above and beyong simply teaching our class. It also gave me great pride to be an Aggie when everyone posted where they were from… Texas!!
1. Benjamin Franklin distinguished positivie and negative charges.
2. Lightning is a natural phenomenon caused by the build up of static energy. This static energy is then released and is lightning.
1. Benjamin Franklin worked with both positive and negative charges in electricity.
2.Lightning is the natural phenomena that is ther build up or release of static charge.
This seminar was great! It was incredibly interactive.