List 5 Ways That You Have Experienced AIR Is SOMETHING in Class

1. List 5 ways that you have experienced AIR is SOMETHING in class.

Lesson 4.1: Is Air Something? (#1), Lesson 5.1: Explaining Things about Air (#4), Lesson 5.2: Compressing Air (#6), Lesson 5.4: Bicycle Tires (#7)

2. What are the two reasons that you COULD NOT push water into the upside down small beaker and why you COULD NOT push the plunger all the way in when air was in the syringe.

Lesson 4.1: Is Air Something? (#1), Lesson 5.1: Explaining Things about Air (#4)

3. Draw a picture to show the molecules of air in your kitchen after your mom has taken chocolate chip cookies out of the oven! Include a KEY!

Lesson 4.2: Air & Smells (#3)

4. Explain how those chocolate-chip-cookie smell molecules travel from the source so you can smell them!

Lesson 4.2: Air & Smells, Magic School Bus Makes a Stink (#3)

5. Write five facts about the earth’s atmosphere using your Cornell Notes.

Cornell Notes: Earth’s Atmosphere (#2)

6. How does a beach ball stay inflated?

Lesson 5.1: Explaining things about Air (#4)

7. Why do trees bend on a windy day?

Lesson 5.1: Explaining things about Air (#4)

8. Draw a picture to show how the molecules of air inside a balloon keep the balloon puffy. Include motion and a key. Then write a short caption.

Lesson 5.1: Explaining things about Air (#4)

9. Define these words (as they apply to air) using Lesson Cluster 5.

Lesson 5.2: Compressing Air (#6), Lesson 5.3: Thick & Thin Air (#7), Lesson 5.4: Bicycle Tires (#7)

a. Compressed

b. Expand

c. Thick air

d. Thin air

10. Describe two situations in class in which air was compressed.

Lesson 5.2: Compressing Air (#4) & Lesson 5.4: Bicycle Tires (#7)

11. What is air pressure?

Lesson 4.1: Is Air Something? (#1), Lesson 5.2: Compressing Air (#6), Cornell Notes: Air Pressure (#8)

12. Why is air pressure greater near the Earth’s surface?

Cornell Notes: Air Pressure, page 286 (#8)

13. Why do substances expand when they are heated?

Lesson 6.1: Heating Solids (#10), Lesson 6.2: The Thermometer (#12), Lesson 6.3: Dancing Dime (#13)

14. Why do substances contract when they are cooled?

Lesson 6.1: Heating Solids (#10), Lesson 6.2: The Thermometer (#12), Lesson 6.3: Dancing Dime (#13)

15. Explain why a thermometer “goes down” when you put the bulb in vanilla ice cream.

Lesson 6.2: The Thermometer (#12)

16. Draw a picture of the molecular arrangement & motion of molecules in cold tea (like iced tea) and hot tea. Think of them as being the same substance – one cold & one hot.

Hot & Cold Molecules (#11)