Van de Graff

The Van de Graff generator today created static electricity. It did different things depending on what was used near it... If you put a metal ball near it you can see the static going to the other ball like in the museum of science. When pie pans were put on top of it it made all the pie pans fly all over the place one after another.

I think something cool to try would be making paper airplanes, possibly with specific charges, and testing them out to see if they moved towards it. Maybe one could carry a little metal thing, and we could see if it still does the little lightning thing when it gets near it... Or maybe balloons with helium could carry a small metal ball, and we could see how the generator would react...