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Conduct a simple experiment to explore how temperature changes can make things expand or contract. Investigate how the heat from your hands warms air in a bottle and lifts a penny sitting on the mouth of the bottle. [Activity is publicly available through a web crawler capture on Archive.org.]
- Under 5 minutes
- Under 5 minutes
- 1 cent - $1 per group of students
- Ages 6 - 14
- Activity
- English
Quick Guide
Materials List (per group of students)
- Some pennies
- Bowl of cold water
- Plastic bottle (the opening should be slightly smaller than a penny)
- Cooking oil
Subjects
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Physical Sciences
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Heat and Thermodynamics
- Heat and Temperature
- Heat Transfer
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States of Matter
- Gases
- Structure and Properties of Matter
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Heat and Thermodynamics
Audience
To use this activity, learners need to:
- see
- touch
Learning styles supported:
- Involves hands-on or lab activities
Other
Access Rights:
- Free access
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Rights:
- All rights reserved, Del Monte, 2013