The Electrical Energy, Safety & Lightning Show
- What
- Museum Staff-led
- When
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Terms 1 to 2, Monday to Friday
12:30pm - Duration
- 40 minutes
- Year level
- Years 3 to 6
- Maximum student numbers
- Maximum 100 students
- Cost
- $9 per student + ed service fee
- Booking information
- Bookings 13 11 02
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.
Victorian Curriculum links
- Level 2 to 6 Science as a Human Endeavour
- Level 5 to 6 Physical Science
- Level 2 to 6 Questioning and Predicting
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