Thomas Intermediate School

Electricity Activity

Record Sheet

Name ___________________

 

Record your answers on the sheet. Be sure to staple any other pages on before you give it to your teacher.

 

  1. Definition of electricity:

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  2. Three phrases that help define electricity:

 

 

 

 
  1. Who discovered electricity?

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  2. Where was he born?

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  3. Where was he buried?

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  4. What did he plan to have put on his headstone when he was a young man?

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    What was actually engraved on it when he died?

     

  5. What child's toy did Ben use to experiment with lightning?

 

6) What were lightning bells?

 

 

 

 

 

List three safety rules.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  1. What is the purpose of this experiment?

 

 

2). What is an electrophorus?

 

 

 

Attach all other work to this sheet.