Assembly Programs: Science to Amaze and Intrigue
Miss Annie proves to Miss Sara that she can fit two inflated balloons inside of a single beaker (with the help of some liquid nitrogen!)
Witness a potpourri of chemistry, biology, and physics! Find out if you can see with your hands, and what happens to nitrogen gas at 320 degrees below zero. Exciting demonstrations on sound, human senses, chemical reactions, cold, heat, and combustion are guaranteed to both amaze and intrigue.
“Science to Amaze and Intrigue” aligns with the following points of the Maryland State Voluntary Curriculum:
Skills and Processes
Grades K, 1, 2:
- Raise questions about the world around them and be willing to seek answers to some of them by making careful observations and trying things out. (A.1a-g)
- Describe and compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion. (C.1b)
Grades 3, 4, 5:
- Gather and question data from different forms of scientific investigations which include observing what things are like or what is happening somewhere and doing experiments. (A.1b-f)
- Seek better reasons for believing something than "Everybody knows that..." or “I just know” and discount such reasons when given by others. Develop explanations using knowledge possessed and evidence from observations and investigations. Offer reasons for their findings and consider reasons suggested by others. Review different explanations for the same set of observations and make more observations to resolve the differences. (B.1abc)
Grade 6:
- Design, analyze, or carry out simple investigations and formulate appropriate conclusions based on data obtained or provided. (A.1)
- Explain how different models can be used to represent the same thing. Choosing a useful model is one of the instances in which intuition and creativity come into play in science, mathematics, and engineering. Recognize that important contributions to the advancement of science, mathematics, and technology have been made by different kinds of people, cultures, at different times. (C.1eg)
Physics
Grade K:
- Observe and describe that sound is produced by vibrating objects. Observe and relate the vibrations of objects that make sounds to the sounds felt and heard. Based on information and observations identify the source of vibrations in familiar objects that produce sounds. (D.2ab)
Grade 3:
- Identify and describe the relationship between a sound and the vibrations that produce it. Based on observations of objects that produce sound, relate vibration to the back and forth motion of the parts of the object. Pose questions concerning the relationship between loudness or pitch and the vibration of an object. (D.2ab)
Grade 6:
- Provide evidence to demonstrate the relationship among the properties of waves using sound. Investigate and describe that the pitch of sounds can be varied by changing the rate of vibration. (D.2a)
Chemistry
Grade 2:
- Provide evidence from investigations that things can be done to materials to change some of their properties. Based on evidence from investigations describe that materials are not changed by certain actions, such as reshaping or breaking into pieces. Ask and seek answers to questions about what happened to the materials if other things were done to them, such as being placed in a freezer, heated, etc. (B.1ab)
- Provide evidence from investigations to identify processes that can be used to change physical properties of materials. Based on investigations, describe what changes occur to the observable properties of various materials when they are subjected to the properties of wetting, cutting, bending, and mixing. Compare the observable properties of objects before and after they have been subjected to various processes. Ask and seek answers to “What if” questions about what might happen to the materials if different processes, such as heating, freezing, and dissolving were used to change them. (D.1a-c)
Grade 3:
- Provide evidence from investigations to describe the effect that changes in temperature have on the properties of materials. Cite examples of similar changes that heating and cooling have on the observable properties of various other things. (C.1c)
Grade 5:
- Provide evidence that when a new material is made by combining 2 or more materials, its properties are different from the original materials (D.1)