Hi, I am Jared, and welcome to Fun Science
Demonstrations for Young Learners.
What is more fun than a balloon, huh? And
we have all been there.
How many of you have ever scrubbed a balloon on
your hair and you felt this kinda weird
force, and you are trying to hang it on a wall?
That is science! And science tells us our
big idea for the day,
that all matter is made up of charges,
positive and negative charges. And
science tells us that positive and
negative charges
attract. Opposites attract. And we can
show you this using science.
So I have this material here, it is wool, and  I
have my balloon,
and now I am going to rub off my
negative charge.
I am rubbing it off. I cannot, you cannot see it, I cannot see it, but I am rubbing  off the negative
charge here.
Now, I rubbed off the negative charge and
I have
the negative charge on this balloon and
I have the positive charges on these
pieces a paper, these little guys.
Let us see if they can attract. Whoa,
they are jumping on!
They are jumping off. Why did some of them
fall off, why did some of them stick on?
That gets a little complicated. But you
can check out our link below.
It has some great interactive
discussions and examples for you to
really process and see and think about.
Science is so cool. Static!
