William Gilbert and static electricity -- Benjamin Franklin and static electricity -- Inducing charge -- Detecting charge: an electroscope -- Magnets, compasses, and poles -- magnets, magnetic matter, and nonmagnetic matter -- Our magnetic earth -- Make a magnet or two -- Magnetic dip -- A magnetic field -- Volta's battery: a voltaic pile -- Making a battery from electric cells -- A simple electric circuit: bulb, wire, and d-cell -- Another circuit: bulb, bulb holder, wires, battery, and meters -- A series circuit and a parallel circuit -- A lemon cell -- An LED -- Electrical resistance -- Electrical resistance and meters -- Electrical resistance and a rheostat -- Electrical resistance, a short circuit, and a fuse -- Electrical resistance and copper plating -- ØOersted's discovery and Ampére's rule -- Ampére, a galvanometer, and electric meters -- Ampére and magnetic forces on side-by-side electric currents -- Magnets from an electric currents -- An electromagnet -- Conductors and nonconductors -- Curie point -- The motor principle: the force on a current in a magnetic field -- A simple electric motor -- Electricity from magnets: electromagnetic induction -- A motor as a generator -- Check your family's electric bill and the wattage of appliances

"Science projects and experiments about electricity and magnetism"--Provided by publisher