How to explain to a child what air is? The child does not see him, cannot touch him with his hands. But examples can show him that air is something real, its properties are easy to see and use.
Necessary
Any can, a plastic bag, cubes, a sponge, a glass of water, a straw, a paper napkin, a piece of brick, a handful of earth
Instructions
Step 1
Take any empty jar. Ask if there is anything in it. Most likely, the child will answer that the jar is empty, there is nothing in it. Say that he was wrong, there is something in her, but he does not see it. But how do you know that there is something in the bank?
Step 2
Take a plastic bag and have your child fill it with balls and small cubes. Pay attention to the baby that if there is something in the bag, then it is no longer flat, but convex.
Step 3
Remove the cubes from the bag. Invite your child to gently twist the pouch while pinching the hole. As it twists, the pouch in the lower part acquires elasticity and bulge. Therefore, there is something in it, and this something is air. Say that there is air everywhere, in an empty can, in a room, on the street. Although invisible, it can be found everywhere.
Step 4
Remind your child that we all breathe in and out. Blow with it through a straw in a glass of water, explain that bubbles are air.
Step 5
Dip a sponge into a glass of water. Make sure the bubbles come out profusely. So there is air in the sponge. Do the same with a piece of brick, a handful of earth. Let the child do all the experiments himself. Draw a conclusion together: air is everywhere, in a room, in a glass, in a jar, in water, in a bag, in a sponge, in the ground, in a brick - air is everywhere around us.
Step 6
Try another experiment. Attach a crumpled paper napkin to the bottom of an empty glass with plasticine and lower it into a vessel with water with the hole down. Ask your child if the paper is wet. Have the child take the glass out of the water and make sure the napkin is dry. Help me understand that it was the air that prevented the water from wetting the napkin.
Step 7
Blow together on a strip of paper. Explain that air can move, move. When moving, branches of trees, grass sway, water begins to move - waves are formed. Show drawings of a windmill, sailing ship. Give a spinner - a windmill. Show it rotates if you run with it. Find out together what exactly the air is driving the turntable. Help your child make such a turntable himself.
