Live Science: Electricity Theater

Live Science Show

Experience the electrifying fusion of science and music as our twin 6-ft Tesla coils play your favorite tunes and throw giant arcs of lightning in the process. Climb into the Faraday Cage and get up close and personal with this “singing lightning” in a performance you won't soon forget!

In-person capacity may be limited in compliance with public health guidelines in effect on the day of your visit.

NOTE: Although all participants wear ear protection, noise levels may be excessive for very young children with sound sensitivities.

Subjects: Physical Sciences
Program Type: Demonstration (Live Science)
NYS Standards:

• 3-PS2-3. Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.
• 4-PS3-3. Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.
• 4-PS3-4. Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
• MS-PS2-3. Ask questions about data to determine the factors that affect the strength of electric and magnetic forces.
• MS-PS2-5. Conduct an investigation and evaluate the experimental design to provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the objects are not in contact
• MS-PS3-2. Develop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system.
• MS-PS3-5. Construct, use, and present an argument to support the claim that when work is done on or by a system, the energy of the system changes as energy is transferred to or from the system.
• MS-PS3-6. Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred by electric currents.
• HS-PS2-4. Use mathematical representations of Newton’s Law of Gravitation and Coulomb’s Law to describe and predict the gravitational and electrostatic forces between objects.
• HS-PS2-5. Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that an electric current can produce a magnetic field and that a changing magnetic field can produce an electric current
• HS-PS3-1. Create a computational model to calculate the change in the energy of one component in a system when the change in energy of the other component(s) and energy flows in and out of the system are known.
• HS-PS3-2. Develop and use models to illustrate that energy at the macroscopic scale can be accounted for as a combination of energy associated with the motions of particles (objects) and energy associated with the relative position of particles (objects).

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