Year 9 Science, What A Sparkle!

Year 9 Science classes have been dealing with the energy and electricity topics in the past few weeks in Science. And…. you cannot imagine what type of vibes and energy we have had in our lessons.

Our students were completely ‘energised’ by charged particles with the use of the Van de Graaff generator. The Van de Graaff generator is one of those devices that you would refer to as ‘an oldie but a goodie’. It is able to create a build-up of positive charges on any object that is in touch with it. And guess what?! Our Year 9 students were the ‘objects’ touching it this time! You could almost see the sparkles!! Their hair literally rose up, and electricity was running through our Year 9 veins.

Who said that electricity was boring?! It must have been someone who did not have the ‘sparkle’ we have!

– Martina Stolzi
Teacher