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| Air to Fly – Air to Breath |
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Author:
Giovanna Malegori
Description
"Air to Fly – Air to Breathe" is a teaching project including a number of experiments for students aged 9-12. The goal is to explore the physical, chemical, and biological properties of air. The project is multi-disciplinary and can be run as a pupil-organised classroom activity. Students should have some basic knowledge in physics. Each of the projects takes about two hours.
There are three main subjects: What is air? (composition, weight,
atmospheric pressure, thermal expansion). Breathing (the role of the diaphragm
during respiration, hydrostatic pressure effects on the lungs, the spirometer,
breathing as a combustion reaction, the anaerobic breathing of yeast). Flight
(aerodynamic resistance, Bernoulli theorem and the lift of a wing,
up-draughts, jet aircraft).
All the experiments rely on easily-obtainable, low-cost materials that can be constructed by the students themselves. The aim is not only to spread knowledge from different subjects (physics, chemistry, biology) but also to educate the students to analyze and to look at daily phenomena with "scientistıs eyes", i.e. to proceed with a scientific and rigorous method without losing the enjoyable and creative side of experimentation.
[More information]
Target Audience:
Age 9-12
Topics Context:
Physics, Biology, Chemistry
Materials:
Teaching
project [.sit]
Teaching
project [.tgz]
Teaching
project[.zip] |
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