This page was designed for your safety. It will give you a better understanding of lightning and how you can keep yourself safe.

A beginner's guide to understanding what causes lightning in a thunderstorm. Highlights the major ideas while giving fun, interesting facts.

See a picture of the lightning rod Benjamin Franklin used in 1746 and learn about his discovery of electricity.

This lesson plan allows students can create static electricity and compare it to lightning.

A description of several demonstrations for static electricity concepts. The demonstrations utilizing the Telsa coil, Faraday cage, and Van de Graaff generator are ideal for demonstrating electric potential concepts. Suitable for student...