NGSS Connections
This document outlines how the activity might be linked to the NGSS as part of a classroom lesson.
An AirZooka is used to knock down plastic cups to demonstrate that air takes up space when the plastic membrane of the AirZooka is released.
- PK – grade 3 students
- Grade 4 – 6 students
- Middle school students
- College-level/ scientific description
- AirZooka
- Plastic cups
- Cardboard box
- Set the plastic cups in a cardboard box a good distance from the launch point.
- Participants take a turn shooting the AirZooka trying to knockdown as many cups as they can with one shot of air.
- What factors do you believe are important in how strong of air blast you get from a AirZooka? How could you design an experiment to test your hypothesis regarding the effect of the factors on the force of the air blast?
- How could you test how fast the air blast was moving?
- What factors do you believe are important in how fast the air blast moves from a AirZooka? How could you design an experiment to test your hypothesis regarding the effect of the factors on the force of the air blast?