We are learning how to explore Energy in Science 🧬. This week we learned how to create Static Energy or Static Electricity.  We used the balloons to create energy. We learned that all objects have positive and negative atoms on them. We know this is hard to imagine so we drew out what atoms might look like and gave them happy positive faces and sad negative faces. When the objects rub together all atoms get jumbled up! When you hold it close together again, the atoms jump back quickly to where they came from in the first place and go back to their places.  This causes our hair to stand up as all the atoms move or we sometimes get an electric shock when they jump back to their places very quickly. When the atoms are all back to where they belong, balance is restored and the energy runs out. We loved creating static energy and waiting to see how long it lasted. When it ran out, the balloons dropped to the floor and our hair went flat again. Of course, I got attacked by enthusiastic energy creators!! A great Friday afternoon! Well done, team! 🎈⚡️💥