THE PROJECT:
THE EARTH IS OUR LITTLE GREEN HOUSE multilateral project COMENIUS 2009-2011
Discover AIR with MAIA Children manual with activities, tests and experiments.
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Introduction: The air is the vital element for all the living beings of the Earth. A little bee help you to discover :
ALL ABOUT AIR,
THE IMPORTANCE OF AIR IN LIFE
CONSERVATION & PROTECTION OF AIR
With:
activities, tests and experiments
Hello, my name is Maia, I’m a little bee. Together we will discover AIR.
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The atmosphere surrounding Earth is full of air! AIR IS EVERYWHERE!!!
PAINT the air around the planet
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Air is important to all living things.
Search newspaper and magazine images of plants, animals and men. CUT AND PASTE THEME.
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I CAN FLY IN THE AIR, THE INSECTS, BATS AND BIRD NEEDS AIR TO FLY.
PAINT WATER, DRAW , COLOUR, CUT AND PASTE THE PICTURES OF FLYING ANIMALS
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Air is very important for respiration. Men, plants, every animal need air to survive. COLOUR, DRAW AND PASTE PICTURES
Paste your photo
Draw your pet
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Air is transparent, air is weight, air takes up space, air is a gas. Explore air with the five senses : Paste a photo of your exploration
Draw a picture of your exploration
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Air is everywhere. Air is invisible. It cannot be seen, but it is all around us. Air is truly noticeable is when it is in the form of wind.
Who Has Seen the Wind?
By Christina Rossetti
Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you. But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I. But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.
Paint “The wind�
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Air takes up space
Blow up a ballon. What is inside the balloon? Blow soap bubbles. The air from your lungs is creating the bubbles.
Mix together the paint and some washing up liquid in the tray. Add some water until it is runny enough to blow bubbles. Use the drinking straw to blow into the paint to make bubbles. Gently place the paper on top of the bubbles. When the bubbles pop remove the paper and leave to dry.
Paste the paper
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AIR HAS VOLUME
1. Take an empty, 2-litre soft drink bottle and lay it on its side. Hold it down firmly. 2. make a ball out of a small piece of paper. Make sure it is small enough to fit through the mouth of the bottle. 3. Hold a hair dryer so it blows directly into the mouth of the bottle. Try and push the paper ball into the bottle using the air stream from the hair dryer. What happen?
COLOUR
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AIR HAS PRESSURE
1. Take one end of the string and tie it to a tree or a post. 2. Take the straw and thread it onto the other end of the string. 3. Tie the other end of string to the second tree or post. 4. Make sure that the string is tight. 5. Move the straw to one end of the string 6. Blow up the balloon and hold the opening so that the air does not escape. 7. Place the mouth of the balloon so that it is pointing toward the closest tree or post. 8. Make sure that the balloon is parallel to the string/straw. Place two pieces of tape over the straw and balloon making sure that the balloon is attached securely. 9. Release the balloon. What happen?
DRAW AND COLOUR
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Air can move, air can push things Blow Painting:
Water paint down a little to make it runny. Pour a couple of drops of paint on to paper, use a drinking straw to blow the paint in all directions. Keep adding more paint and blowing.
PASTE the PAPER
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Wind is air that moves over the Earth's surface and movement of air is energy.
Creating simple ranges, pinwheel, kite, little flags is cheap and easy to make.
Draw and colour or paste a photo of your games with “air-toys�.
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Air become polluted with emission of gas: industry, individual actions, transportation . Observe the image , comment and verbalize it , invents a story.
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Why drive when you can walk?! Walking, running, skipping are all much more fun than sitting in a boring uncool car. Plant trees, the lungs of the Earth.
What we can do to keep the air clean Observe the image , comment and verbalize
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Without air the Earth would look like the moon. All living things need air to live.
The atmosphere surrounding Earth is full of air! AIR IS EVERYWHERE!!!
Air is transparent, air is weight, air takes up space, air has volume and pressure , air is a gas.
Air become polluted with emission of gas: industry, individual actions, transportation .
REDUCE YOU EMISSION OF GAS: Walking, running, skipping are all much more fun than sitting in a boring un-cool car . Plant trees, the lungs of the Earth. YOU CAN SAVE AIR , YOU CAN SAVE EARTH: OUR LITTLE GREEN HOUSE.