Students begin their exploration of electricity by examining the concept of electric charges. Students discover that electric charges can be transferred from one object to another, leading to a buildup of charges called static electricity.

Student Resources

• 1.1 Vocabulary
• 1.2 Static Electricity
• 1.3 Making Static Electricity
• 1.4 Electrostatic Series
• 1.5 Measuring Static Charge
• 1.6 Graphing Static Charge
• 1.7 Static Balloons
• 1.8 Section 1 Assessment

Learn by Reading

For additional content-area reading, check out the Houghton Mifflin Science eBook: Grade 4, Unit F, pages F44–F47.