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In this activity and/or demonstration, learners illustrate visually and physically that air has weight. Learners balance two equally-inflated balloons hanging from string on a yard stick.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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Learners cover a bottle with a balloon. When they immerse the bottle in warm water, the balloon inflates. When they immerse the bottle in a bowl of ice, the balloon deflates.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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The demonstration/experiment provides quick proof that air has mass.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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Learners measure a bottle full of air, and then use a vacuum pump to remove the air. When they re-weigh the bottle, learners find the mass is about 0.8g less.

Over $20 per student Ages 11 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners will build an air cannon out of simple materials you can find around the house. Although air is invisible to the eye, it is not by any means empty space!

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners develop an understanding of air pressure in two different activities.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this physics activity (page 6 of the PDF), learners will demonstrate air has weight by comparing an inflated balloon to a deflated one.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners color and cut out a spiral-shaped snake. When they hang their snake over a radiator, the snake spins.

free Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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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
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In this quick and easy activity and/or demonstration, learners illustrate the effect of the weight of air over our heads.

free Ages 6 - 18 Under 5 minutes
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Learners see convection currents in action in this highly visual demonstration. Sealed bags of colored hot or cold water are immersed in tanks of water.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore moving air and the physics of lift and drag by constructing homemade wind tunnels.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 6 - 11 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity about gravity (page 6 of the PDF), learners will come to understand how all objects will fall at the same rate, but that air will slow things down.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 8 5 to 10 minutes
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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
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In this activity, learners build handheld rockets and launchers out of PVC pipes and plastic bottles. Use this activity to demonstrate acceleration, air pressure, and Newton's Laws of Motion.

Over $20 per student Ages 6 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners evaluate the potential performance of air rockets placed inside a wind tunnel.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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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
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In this physics activity, learners recreate Galileo's famous experiment, in which he dropped a heavy weight and a light weight from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to show that both weights fall

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this collection of demonstrations, learners explore Newton's Laws of Motion.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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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