Activity Overview
In this lesson, students will use a simulation to observe and manipulate electric field, electric lines, positive and negative charges.
Objectives
- Students will describe what happens when positive charges interact.
- Students will describe what happens when negative charges interact.
- Student will simulate the motion of a charged particle through an electric field using the properties of like and unlike charges.
Vocabulary
- electric charge
- negative charge
- electric force
- positive charge
- electric field lines
- electric field
About the Lesson
Adapted from a PhETTM simulation, this lesson is a simulation of an electric field where positive and negative charges interact. The fictitious context is of a hockey-style game where a positive charge (the "puck") is pushed through the "goal".
As a result, students will:
- describe the interactions of two positive charges, two negative charges, and a positive and negative charge
- predict the motion of charged particles
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