I know it’s sometimes made via kinetic energy rotating magnets but that might be to complicated an explanation. Trying to figure out an easy way to explain the generation part to some kids!
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Kid-friendly explanation: if you move electrons near a magnet, the electons get a push. If the electrons are free to move, the push gets them moving and moving electrons is electricity.
Easy source of electrons that can move: a wire. Metal has lots of electrons that are pretty easy to move around. If you hold a wire and wave it past a magnet you get electricity in the wire. Give a kid a coat hanger and a bar magnet and have them go to town, they’re making electricity.
A conventional power generator is just a way of moving a *lot* of wire past a *lot* of magnets, but the physics is exactly the same.
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