My science activity will be to perform an experiment in which the experimenter creates clouds in a bottle. The clouds you see in the sky are formed when water vapor is cooled enough to form tiny water droplets. When moist, cool air rises to a higher altitude, it cools, water droplets are formed, and voila - you have clouds. In this experiment I will duplicate this same process by causing air in a bottle to rapidly cool.
The content is weather for fourth graders. I chose Objective 2: Describe the water cycle.
1. Locate examples of evaporation and condensation in the water cycle (e.g., water evaporates when heated and clouds or dew forms when vapor is cooled).
2. Describe the processes of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation as they relate to the water cycle.
The pedagogy is observing, classifying, inferring, predicting, measuring, acquiring and processing data. This is relevant to my content because before I do my experiment I will make predictions, then I will observe what happens. After I have observed, I will make inferences as to what happened and acquire data.
The technology I will use is kidsperation and google sky. Kidsperation will help my students make connections and google sky will help them see clouds in real life.