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How Does Air Move?
How Does Air Move?
Objective: The students will demonstrate the relationship between
temperature and convection.
Objective: The students will demonstrate the relationship between
temperature and convection.
Activity: Hot and Cold
Activity: Hot and Cold
Materials:
2 containers per group – 1 filled with ice water, 1 filled with hot water
1 - bottle per group
1 - party balloon per group
Materials:
2 containers per group – 1 filled with ice water, 1 filled with hot water
1 - bottle per group
1 - party balloon per group
1. Place the balloon over the bottle opening. (see diagram above)
2. Place your bottle with the balloon attached in the container of cold water (see
diagram above). You may partially inflate the balloon.
3. What do you observe? Draw and explain your observations:
1. Place the balloon over the bottle opening. (see diagram above)
2. Place your bottle with the balloon attached in the container of cold water (see
diagram above). You may partially inflate the balloon.
3. What do you observe? Draw and explain your observations:
4. Place the bottle with the balloon attached in the container of hot water (see
diagram above).
5. What do you observe? Draw and explain your observations below
4. Place the bottle with the balloon attached in the container of hot water (see
diagram above).
5. What do you observe? Draw and explain your observations below
6. Switch the bottle back and forth from the ice to the warm water and observe.
7. Why do you think what you observed happened? Explain below.
6. Switch the bottle back and forth from the ice to the warm water and observe.
7. Why do you think what you observed happened? Explain below.