Search Results


Showing results 1 to 20 of 39

Source Institutions
Add to list Details
The demonstration/experiment provides quick proof that air has mass.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
Source Institutions
Add to list Details
This demonstration/activity helps learners understand why higher elevations are not always warm simply because "hot air rises." Learners use a tire pump to increase the pressure and temperature inside

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
Add to list Details
Learners build devices from rubber bands to test for invisible air pollutants.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
Source Institutions
Add to list Details
In this activity, learners will use a compact disc to build an air puck that can glide across a smooth tabletop. The puck glides with almost no friction on a cushion of air escaping from a balloon.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
Add to list Details
Learners develop awareness and understanding of the daily air quality using the Air Quality Index (AQI) listed in the newspaper or online.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
Source Institutions
Add to list Details
In this demonstration, learners observe the effects of air pressure. They will watch as marshmallows inside a bottle expand as a vacuum pump removes air from the bottle.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - adult Under 5 minutes
Source Institutions
Add to list Details
In this activity, learners use cheap, thin plastic garbage bags to quickly build a solar hot air balloon. In doing so, learners will explore why hot air rises.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
Add to list Details
Learners build particulate matter collectors--devices that collect samples of visible particulates present in polluted air.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
Add to list Details
In this activity, learners build a hot air balloon using just a few sheets of tissue paper and a hair dryer.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
Source Institutions
Add to list Details
Just like birds, some dinosaurs had air-filled (pneumatic) bones, which made the dinosaurs' skeletons lighter.

$1 - $5 Ages 8 - 18 1 to 7 days
Add to list Details
In this meteorology activity, learners build weather vanes using straws, paperclips, and cardstock.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
Source Institutions
Add to list Details
In this activity (page 1 of PDF under SciGirls Activity: Forecasting), learners will construct an air cannon by cutting a hole in the bottom of a bucket and stretching a garbage bag over the other end

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
Source Institutions
Add to list Details
In this challenge, learners make a helium balloon hover in one spot and then move it through an obstacle course using air currents.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
Source Institutions
Add to list Details
In this activity, learners use simple items to construct a device for indicating air pressure changes.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 18 1 to 4 weeks
Source Institutions
Add to list Details
In this activity, learners use simple items to construct a device for indicating air pressure changes.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 18 1 to 4 weeks
Add to list Details
Learners engage in close observation of falling objects. They determine it is the amount of air resistance, not the weight of an object, which determines how quickly an object falls.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 11 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
Source Institutions
Add to list Details
Learners drop two different masses of play dough and observe how long it takes them to hit the ground.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 11 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
Source Institutions
Add to list Details
In this activity, learners explore how objects can have positive, negative, or neutral charges, which attract, repel and move between objects.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
Add to list Details
Learners build a simple aneroid barometer to learn about changes in barometric pressure and weather forecasting. They observe their barometer and record data over a period of days.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 14 1 to 4 weeks
Source Institutions
Add to list Details
In this design challenge activity, learners make a balloon hover at eye level for five seconds, and then make it move by creating air currents.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes