Air and Weather- FOSS kit Part 2: Air under water

Standard(s): 3.2.6.B1: Explain how changes in motion require a force. 3.2.10.B1 Analyze the relationships among the net forces acting on a body, the mass of the body, and the resulting acceleration using Newtons Second Law of Motion. Apply Newtons Law of Universal Gravitation to the forces between two objects. Use Newtons Third Law to explain forces as interactions between bodies. Describe how interactions between objects conserve momentum. Learning Goal: The students will investigate what happens when something is submerged in water. Assessment: Air and Weather Journals P. 2 and 3 Teacher observation/checklist Materials needed for lesson: basin vials paper towels plastic-foam balls Air and Weather Journals Pencil Instruction: Motivation direct instruction o explain what the students are going to be doing o explain what the materials are (basin, vial, paper towel, foam ball) o have the students use the vials to see the bubbles in the water guided instruction o ask the students what happens when the vial is placed upside down and then tipped o talk about bubbles, what do bubbles do? o give the students a foam ball to see what happens with that (they can see the water level in the vial) o tell the students to let a few bubbles out to see the level change in the water o talk about discoveries that the children found air in the vial? how did it feel when the vial was pushed down into the water? where do bubbles come from? independent instruction o give the students paper towels and see if they can keep the paper towel dry when it is submerged in water o let the students try it out and talk about it what did you do to keep the paper towel dry? (kept the vial straight up and down) why do you think that worked? (air was captured in the vial with the paper towel water couldnt get into the vial as long as air was taking up the

space, if the vial was tipped it would make the air escape and the paper towel would get wet) Closure o add words to the current word bank for students to access such as; vial bubble water paper towel submerge o write statements about what we learned for the students to access (have the students access) such as; air can be trapped in a vial underwater air bubbles come out of the vial if its tipped sideways air takes up space so water cant get in and out of the paper towel o write in air and weather journal about what you learned or something related to the experiment o draw an x on each picture to show where the air was Modifications: amount of sentences in Air and Weather Journal students in groups/centers Contingencies: If the students are not understanding air, we can go back over the word bank and statements that they learned with the last part.