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Fun with air

A bit of fun with air, balloons and cotton balls.

  1. Balloon Sneak
    Place a balloon at one end of the room and sneak up against it. 0m the balloon moves out of the air in the room, you must back until the balloon is still standing, before you can start sneaking on it again. Anyone who reaches the balloon may place it in a new place, so you sneak on!
  2.  Where does the air go when you blow?
    Blowing on a spout of paper or cotton shows how the air gets a direction when pressed out of the mouth through the lips. It is possible to control the direction if you train a little, by blowing from different directions and by moving the hole between the lips. It is also possible to control how far between should come by blowing different hard. Just try it out! To further develop the blowing, you can use straws of various kinds, thin and thick, those that can be angled and those that are straight and the nice squeaky straws can not be forgotten!
    For the more competitive, there are many variants to try. For starters, you can have each to blow and blow one blow each and see who comes closest to the center! A further development of this is to see how many blows each person needs to reach the midpoint. Then you should have decided from the beginning what is the matter, is it a matter of coping with as few blows as possible, or is it about blowing as gently as you can, and thereby getting many blows? Of course, you can also compete by blowing towards the other’s tussle to prevent it from reaching the nest. Admittedly, it becomes more blow hockey than curling, but it’s also fun! If you want to play blow hockey, the thick straws that are led and can bend like a hockey club are usually best. Small targets can be made by placing two stones at a certain distance from each other.

Cloud in a Can

Pour hot water into a glass jar. Close the lid and place a plate on the lid on which you put snow or ice.
See how the water forms clouds and how the cloud slowly flows down like rain.

Think with the kids how it works.
Where do the clouds come from? Where does the rain come from? Why is it raining down? And on…

Egg Drop Challenge

I like challenges. Do you dare to try this I found from Buggy and Buddy?

The challenge is to create a container that will protect an egg from cracking or breaking from a high fall. You can make this as simple or complex as you want depending on the amount of time you have and the ages of kids you are working with.

Materials for the Egg Drop Challenge

  • You can use anything you want!

Procedure

  • Come up with an idea of some type of container you can make to protect an egg from a high fall.
  • Build your container and place the egg inside.
  • Drop the egg from someplace high. (Be sure it’s safe and an adult is with you.)
  • After you drop it look and see if your egg cracked or remained intact.

Questions to Spark More Curiosity & Critical Thinking

Describe your design.

  • Why do you think it will protect the egg?
  • Did it work? Why or why not?
  • How could you improve your design?

Want to go even further?

  • Try dropping the egg from increasing heights. Does it eventually stop working?
  • If your initial design did not work, redesign it and try to improve it. Can you get it work the next time?
  • Fill a box with a large amount of materials that could be used for this project. Then allow each child to only choose 3 items from the box to build their design.

Animals in the neck

Prepare as many patches as students. Choose animals that the students know and write one animal on each note (you can of course also have a picture).
Each pupil is then given a clothespin and a patch with an animal on. The patch should not be displayed to anyone else. Everyone attaches a patch to the neck of someone else in the group so everyone has a patch in the neck, but no one knows what patch you have yourself.
Have students mingle around. When two people meet, they must ask a yes / no question to each other. The purpose of the question is to find out which animal you have in the neck, for example: “Does my animal have wings?” After asking your question you have to guess what animal you have in the neck.
If you make a mistake, you may continue to mingle and ask a new question to someone else. Once you’ve figured out what animal you have, you’re done. But you can still mingle, and answer questions from those who have not yet figured out their animal.

Find the fault-game

This game arose from a forest visit. One of the children found a branch on the ground that turned out to be blue inside. Then one of the children came on: “Yes! We play find the fault-game! ”

The game involves finding things that are ”wrong” and documenting them with a camera.

Then take the pictures home and reflect on the ”errors”. See what it raises for questions.

Thanks to lektionsbanken.se for the tip!

Bosse the Farmer

This exercise is a laboratory method of training how the numbers are built up, in this case number 5. Distribute one fence and five animals to each pair of children. Then have the children to think about how many different ways the animals can graze in Bosse the farmers’ two pastures.
If you want to extend the exercise you can have more pastures than two for the animals to graze in and have even more animals than five that are out grazing.

Material: Animals, fences (fences no need, two books can act as two different pastures)

Thank you Nina for the idea from the blog Räkna med mig.

Volcanoes & Eruptions

Volcanoes are always fascinating. Here are two variants.

Baking Soda Volcano

Form a volcano of clay. Pour a couple of spoons of baking soda into the crater. Drop in a few drops of caramel color. Take a spoon or pipette and drop in a few drops of vinegar in the baking soda. When the vinegar is dropped into the baking powder, it starts to mill and bubble. The mixture of vinegar and baking powder is poured over the edge of the crater and floats out over the sides of the volcano.

Explanation: The baking powder is a carbonate and consists of salts. All carbonates develop carbon dioxide if poured on an acid, such as vinegar. The carbonate reacts with the acid, which creates the bubbles.

Developments of the experiment

  • Will the volcanic eruption be the same if you pour the vinegar / vinegar first into the crater instead, and then the baking soda?
  • Can the lava carry with you things that you put down in the crater? How heavy can they be? Sugar pellets, sprinkles, paper balls, Native American beads, wooden beads, what can we use?

The volcano in the bottle

Pour baking soda into a bottle (preferably transparent). Place the bottle on a tray. Pour the vinegar into a glass, add some detergent and some caramel color. Stir the mixture. Put the funnel on the bottle and pour into the solution.

Explanation: The vinegar reacts with the baking powder to form carbon dioxide. The detergent will make huge bubbles of carbon dioxide. The bottle becomes full of foam, which eventually overflows!

What Is Floating Where?

There have been some experiments with floating here. I’ll give you one more. Then I have something else up my sleave.

Does everything flow in all kinds of fluids, or is it that some things can flow in water, but not in other liquids?

To try it, you can do the following experiment:

Measure out so it is equal amounts of water, oil and syrup, and pour them into the large jar, one liquid at a time. For the sake of effect, it may have a point to start with water, then oil and lastly the syrup. The liquids will layer.

Now it is time to choose an object and make a hypothesis: ”Will the chosen object float in the oil, in the water or in the syrup?”

MATERIAL
A large glass jar
Cooking oil
Water
Syrup
Various items: grapes, screws, rubber bands, erasers, piece of candle, plastic and metal clips, large sequins, cork, coins, thumbtacks, pearl, nails, magnets …

Orange fireworks

Peel a clementine or an orange. Light a candle and let it burn a little. Take a piece of the peel and squeeze the yellow on the peel against the flame of the heating light.

What can you see? Which fruit creates the most fireworks?

Explanation
It is not only air in an orange peel, but there are also oils in the peel that you use when, for example. makes perfume. When you squeeze the peel against the flame, you release the oils in the shell that are ignited by the flame.

The idea comes from Louise Alfredsson at Nätraby School in Nätraby via www.lektion.se