We are learning about electricity and how power and energy works. Thales of Miletus discovered that rubbing amber would attract lightweight objects like feathers. The word for amber in Greek is “elektron”. Democritus believed that the nature of things was made of small, invisible particles of varying sizes called “Atomos”. That word then got changed into the word “Atoms”. We also listened to the Periodic Table song. We got to see all of the 118 elements that make up our planet and us. Our teacher taught us that Queen Elizabeth’s doctor discovered that the Earth’s core was molting. William Gilbert said “The electric effluvia differ from much air, and as air is the earth’s effluvium, so electric bodies have their own distinctive effluvia.” So from there on he was said to have made the word effluvia.