Surface Area and Soda Geysers
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Twin Cities Public Television
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This is an activity (located on page 4 of the PDF under Surface Area Activity) about surface area and reactivity. Learners will perform a variation on the popular soda geyser activity, using different sizes of rock material in place of candy. Students will do 3 trials for each type of rock, record the height of each resulting geyser, and average their results. This resource includes information about how researchers can use nanoparticles as catalysts and relates to linked video, DragonflyTV Nano: Surface Area.
- Under 5 minutes
- 1 to 2 hours
- $10 - $20 per group of students
- Ages 8 - 14
- Activity, Experiment/Lab Activity, Lesson/Lesson Plan
- English
Quick Guide
Materials List (per group of students)
- 2 liter bottles of diet soda
- rocks, pea gravel and sand
- geyser tube
- penny
- thin stick or chopstick
- scale
- outdoor wall to measure against
Subjects
- Engineering and Technology
- Engineering
- Nanotechnology
- Engineering
- Mathematics
- Data Analysis and Probability
- Data Analysis
- Data Collection
- Data Representation
- Measurement
- Size and Scale
- Number and Operations
- Representation
- Data Analysis and Probability
- Physical Sciences
- Chemistry
- Chemical Reactions
- Structure and Properties of Matter
- Chemistry
- The Nature of Science
- The Scientific Process
- Conducting Investigations
- Gathering Data
- Formulating Explanations
- Communicating Results
- The Scientific Process
Informal Categories
- Outdoor Activity
Audience
To use this activity, learners need to:
- see
- be mobile
- touch
Learning styles supported:
- Involves hands-on or lab activities
Other
Components that are part of this resource:
Includes alignment to state and/or national standards
This resource is part of:
Access Rights:
- Free access
By:
Source Collection:
- DragonflyTV
Rights:
- All Rights Reserved, Twin Cities Public Television, Inc., ©2008
Funding Source:
- National Science Foundation, 741749
