| An electricity science fair project may be set up as a | | | | * Carrying out experimental exploration of the |
| part of high school or college science fair or just for | | | | photoelectric effect |
| fun and learning. An electricity science fair project is | | | | * Carrying out experiments with electron diffraction |
| aimed at demonstrating the major methods of | | | | * Building models of a simple electrostatic motor, a |
| generating electricity, its principles, applications and | | | | wooden generator, a Van de Graaf generator, a wind |
| other principles such as chemical energy, | | | | generator, a water turbine generator, and |
| electromagnetism, static electricity, resistance, etc. | | | | demonstrating their operations |
| For organizing an electricity science fair project, the | | | | * Performing Faraday's "Ice Pail" experiment and |
| students need three things: | | | | explaining the mechanism of electrostatic induction |
| 1. They should have extensive theoretic knowledge of | | | | * Building an electroscope and demonstrating the |
| the projects they are going to build. For this purpose, | | | | existence of positive and negative charges and of |
| they may have to consult books and encyclopedias. | | | | two kinds of materials: the insulators and the |
| 2. They need the guidance and assistance of their | | | | conductors |
| science teachers or perhaps of external | | | | * Demonstrating how lightning is produced |
| knowledgeable advisors. | | | | * Demonstrating how light is faster than sound |
| 3. They need certain materials like convex mirrors, | | | | * Demonstrating the role of electricity in separating a |
| reflectors, concave mirrors, insulators, conductors, light | | | | mixture of salt, sugar and pepper |
| bulbs, fuses, wires, on-off switches, step-down | | | | * Demonstrating static electricity with the help of the |
| transformers, holders, mazes, circuits, electromagnets, | | | | jumping effect on rice flakes kept on a tabletop |
| and many more. The pieces that they need for these | | | | * Building a working model of an electric cycle, electric |
| types of experiments are sometimes hard to come | | | | tricycle and an electric car and demonstrating the |
| by. | | | | involved principles |
| Nowadays, unlike years earlier, commercial | | | | * Demonstrating the way a hydroelectric plant |
| ready-made kits are available that make the setting up | | | | generates electricity with the help of water. |
| of electricity science fair project easy. Though they | | | | None of the above-mentioned electricity science fair |
| cannot be used directly as project models, they can | | | | projects need expensive or rare materials, but instead, |
| be used in specific electricity science fair projects. One | | | | they simply require the relatively easily available ones. |
| can get basic or advanced kits for the projects, but | | | | Moreover, any high school student can do most of |
| remember, if it was available to you, it might be | | | | these projects under the supervision of an elder, be it |
| available to someone else. Duplicate experiments are | | | | parent or a teacher. |
| not good for judges to see. | | | | Electricity science fair projects remind us of the fact |
| Some of the examples of electricity science fair | | | | that electricity is indispensable to mankind, and can |
| projects are listed below, but are not limited to the | | | | provide a good segway for the student into a high |
| following ones: | | | | paying career in the field of electronics or electricity. |
| * Demonstrating the effects of electric fields on plants | | | | |