
Electrical energy, safety and lightning
- What
- Museum Staff-led
- When
- Terms 3-4, Mon–Fri
- Duration
- 40 minutes
- Year level
- Years 2-6
- Maximum student numbers
- Maximum 118 students
- Cost
- $9 per student plus education service fee
- Booking information
- Bookings (03) 9392 4819
This 40-minute presentation is set in our purpose-built high voltage laboratory/theatre, which features equipment unique to Scienceworks. It demonstrates energy transfers and transformations involving electricity.
Find out about static electricity, conductors and insulators, electric circuits and safety switches. Highlights include a hair-raising encounter with a Van de Graaff generator, making light with a pickled onion and the biggest Jacob's Ladder display in the country.
The show finishes with a spectacular demonstration of lightning strikes and tips for safety strategies in lightning storms.
Curriculum links
- Level 2–6 Science as a Human Endeavour
- Level 5–6 Physical Science
- Level 2–6 Questioning and Predicting