Static Electricity and the Balloon)

Hi, I am Jared, and welcome to Fun Science Demonstrations for Young Learners. What is more fun than a balloon, huh? And we have all been there. How many of you have ever scrubbed a balloon on your hair, and you felt this kind of weird force, and you are trying to hang it on a wall? That is science. And science tells us our big idea for the day, that all matter is made up of charges, positive and negative charges. And science tells us that positive and negative charges attract. Opposites attract. And we can show you this using science. So I have this material here. It is wool, and I have my balloon. And now I am going to rub off my negative charge. I am rubbing it off. I can't, you can't see it, I can't see it, but I am rubbing off the negative charge here. Now, I rubbed off the negative charge, and I have the negative charge on this balloon. And I have the positive charges on these pieces of paper, these little guys. Let's see if they can attract. Whoo, they are jumping on. They are jumping off. Why did some of them fall off? Why did some of them stick on? That gets a little complicated, but you can check out our link below. It has some great interactive discussions and examples for you to really process and see and think about. Science is so cool. Static!