Heat Transfer / State Change / Density

Time Activity
8:00 Arrival
1- Placing water in ice molds and cups marked in blue and then putting them in the
freezer.
2- Placing water in cups marked in red and then putting them in the sun
8:30 Activity Begins:
1- Introduction to state change (Water Cycle)
2- Write hypothesis concerning state change (drawing + use of English terms such as
“hot”, “cold” etc…) and hang it on the wall.
3- Place marked cups in sun and freezer (Activity 1)
9:00 Heat Transfer
1- Introduction to heat transfer (cold becomes hot upon heating, hot becomes cold
upon cooling)
2- Write hypothesis concerning heat transfer (drawings + use of English words)
3- Blowing and drawing on balloons and placing them in the freezer (Activity 2)
4- Placing buckets of water for different groups of kids where they place their right
hands in cold water for 5 minutes after which dry hands and play the fortress game.
(Activity 3)
5- After the fortress game, ask the kids to notice the change in their hands temperatures
and to state potential reasons for the change.
6- They will write the first line on their own (memo, poster…)
9:15 Expansion of Air with respect to Temperature
1- Taking balloons out of the freezer.
2- Observation of volume (reduction of size for the balloons in the freezer and notice
the shrinking of the drawings)
3- Draw conclusions.
4- Write volume change conclusions on their posters.
9:30 Volume Change of Hot and Cold Air in Balloons:
(Cold and hot balloons are put next to each other}
1- Noting difference in size of balloons (cold balloon becomes bigger and warm
balloon become smaller; both balloons reach same size).
2- Conclusion on posters.
10:00 Density:
1- Fill a cup with water.
2- Put an object in it that would normally sink.
3- Start adding salt or sugar until the object floats [notice that the quantity of sugar is
about double of that of the salt]
10:30 Lava Lamp Experiment:
 2 * 500mL plastic bottles with lid (clean and dry)
 Measuring cup
 Water
 Food coloring
 Measuring spoon
 Cooking oil
 Table salt
Procedure:
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1- Fill 4 of the bottles with water.
2- Add 2 drops of food coloring to the water
3- Swirl the bottle to mix the food coloring evenly.
4- Add 2tTbs (30 mL) of cooking oil.
5- Wait for water and oil to separate.
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6- Pour 4 tbs (10 mL) of salt into the bottle.
7- Watch liquids in the bottle:
- Drops of oil on the surface begin to sink to bottom until they come to rest.
- After a while the same oil drop will start to move back up to remix with oil
surface.
Explanation:
Adding the salt causes it to stick to oil drops such that the oil/salt drop has a higher
density than water. However, once the salty oil drop reaches the bottom of the water, the
salt moves out of the oil drop to mix with water leaving the oil drop with lower density
that water to move back up to the oil surface.
Adding more salt causes the process to repeat itself until the amount of salt in the water
reaches a level where its density is higher than the beginning  density of water to
become greater than density of salt and oil drops  drops no longer move from surface
to bottom of the bottle.