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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.

Learners conduct four simple experiments to demonstrate the effects of air pressure.

This lesson guide includes six simple and quick activities to help learners better understand Bernoulli's Principle.

On an airplane trip, learners have an opportunity to investigate the properties of air pressure at different altitudes.

In this activity, learners build a hot air balloon using just a few sheets of tissue paper and a hair dryer.

In this activity, learners create their own obstacle course based on Bernoulli's Principle and try to get a floating ball from the start of their course to the finish line.

In this activity, learners build rockets and shoot them into the air by stomping on the plastic bottle launchers.

Learners investigate the concept of humidity by using a dry and wet sponge as a model. They determine a model for 100% humidity, a sponge saturated with water.

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

In this meteorology activity, learners construct simple devices to measure the direction and speed of wind.

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.

Learners drop two different masses of play dough and observe how long it takes them to hit the ground.

In this activity, learners make water rockets to explore Newton's Third Law of Motion. Learners make the rockets out of plastic bottles and use a bicycle pump to pump them with air.

Learners observe and conduct experiments demonstrating the different properties of hot and cold materials.

In this activity, learners will engineer three different parachutes to test how well each one works.

In this activity, learners explore how pneumatics and hydraulics could be used to produce movement in a robotic arm.

In this design challenge activity, learners use a balloon and other simple materials to design an air-powered rocket that can hit a distant target.

In this activity, learners build mini-basketball courts and explore the laws of physics. Learners discover that everything you throw or shoot on earth travels in a parabola.

In this investigation, learners explore the force known as buoyancy by placing various objects into water and observing how they behave (for example, which sink more quickly, which float, how much wat

In this design challenge activity, learners build a shock-absorbing system that will protect two “astronauts” when they land.