This activity from the Exploratorium provides instructions to build an electroscope, a device that detects electrical charge. Common, inexpensive materials including film canisters, 3-M Scotch Magic™ Tape, and a plastic...

This website offers 15 lecture demonstrations designed to help students discover laws of electrostatics. Items range from capicitance to an inexpensive moving charge sensor. The author focuses on materials and tools...

Stephen T. Thornton, a professor in the department of physics at the University of Virginia, has created this website to bring together a number of lesson plans for teachers in the field. Within this “Teacher...

From Dean Baird's Book of Phyz, learn the "shocking truths and current models" of electrostatic charge and force, including Ben Franklin's Findings and what we currently know about charge in this two-page PDF document. ...

This research study, presented at the 2002 Physics Education Research Conference, discusses how a student's guiding epistemological mode (be it knowledge as memorized information, knowledge from authority, or knowledge...