What

Museum Staff-led

When

Terms 1 to 4, Thursday & Friday
2:30pm

Duration

45 minutes

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Curriculum links & Accessibility

Year level

VCE

Minmum student numbers

Minimum 15 students

Maximum student numbers

Maximum 118 students

Cost

$9 per student + education service fee

Booking information

Bookings 13 11 02

School visit information

Set in our high voltage Lightning Theatre, this live show features spectacular experiments that practically demonstrate key concepts of the VCE physics curriculum connected to energy and electricity. These demonstrations feature equipment unique to Scienceworks, and give students the opportunity to get excited and curious.

Students will experience

• Hair raising experiments about creating static electricity using different materials on the triboelectric series
• Creating electric current using movement, magnets and wire coils
• Crushing cans with enormous electromagnetic fields
• Two-million-volt lightning bolts from our gigantic Tesla coil

Students will learn

• How static electricity is generated
• How electric current is generated using magnetic fields
• How current, resistance, potential difference and power can change in an electric circuit
• How fuses, circuit breakers and residual current devices are uses to protect our homes
• The causes and effects of electric shock

Other key information

• Students with pacemakers or cochlear implants can attend this program safely, however they may be asked not to volunteer for certain demonstrations.

Victorian Curriculum links

VCE Physics

Unit 1: How is energy useful to society?

• Area of study 3: How can electricity be used to transfer electricity?

Unit 3: How do fields explain motion and electricty?

• Area of study 2: How do things move without contact?
• Area of study 3: How are fields used in electricity generation?