Air Activity
AIR
Air Can Move Things
SeniorDuration: 20 Minutes
Introduction
Air can be difficult to teach about because you can't always see it, smell it, hear it, or taste it. But we just simplified learning through this activity. So here we go!
Material Required
- a pencil, a paper ball or an eraser
- hair dryer or a vacuum cleaner
- leaves, pebbles, stones, wool, cotton ball, feather, lock, wooden big blocks, balloons etc.
Activity Aim
Observation
Thinking skills
Steps
1
Ask your child if he/she has seen the leaves of the tree moving or a kite flying in the sky?
2
Let your child watch the clouds move in the sky. Explain that the wind or the air moves the cloud.
Let your child watch the clouds move in the sky. Explain that the wind or the air moves the cloud.
Explain that it is the air around us that can move things.
3
Ask your child to try moving things like a pencil, a paper ball or an eraser by blowing air on it.
4
Discuss with your child different ways that air can move things.
Discuss with your child different ways that air can move things.
Ask him/her to try to move the chair or the table by blowing air, explain that it is easy to move light things but difficult to move heavy things.
5
Ask your child to try using a hair dryer or a vacuum cleaner, to move away or blow things away.
6
Have various things on a tray like leaves, pebbles, stones, wool, cotton ball, feather, lock, wooden big blocks, balloons etc.
7
Pick up the objects one at a time & ask your child which object can or cannot be blown away easily.
8
Discuss the story of ’The Three Little Pigs’ where the wolf uses air by huffing and puffing to blow the houses down.
