Another thing that is part of static electricity is lighting.
FACT: Did you ever know that opposites attract.A positive and a negative charge will atract and pull towards each other.Things with same charges two positives or two negatives will repel or push away from each other.
When you go home you can try a project. The project is you get a balloon ,and rub it back and fourth on your hair. Then you pick the balloon up and your hair well move back and fourth and it stand up in the air. when you are doing that you are creating static electricity.
Now you know about static electricity now were going to talk about how it works.
Static electricity is an imbalance between negative and positive charges in objects.
Now that you know about static electricity you can go tell friends and family what static electricity is.