pink palace museum
Teacher’s Program Guide
Presented In
Pink Palace
Science Lab
For Grades
3-6
15 - 32 students
Available
August - May
Monday - Friday
at 9:30 & 11 am
45 - 60 Minutes
Fun With
Physical
Science
Program Summary
density column. It’s all part of our exploration of properties of matter. Students develop hypotheses as they conduct experiments in our
Museum Science Lab. We explore concepts of air pressure, density of solids, liquids and gasses, magnetism, and surface tension of water.
Students use plastic bottles, magnets, nails, water droppers and pennies to recognize that physical science is an important aspect of their
daily lives.
Curriculum Standards
Tennessee
Vocabulary
air
density
high pressure
low pressure
magnetic force
surface tension
cohesion
hypothesis
molecules
atoms
3rd Grade:
4th Grade:
5th Grade:
Mississippi
3rd Grade:
4th Grade:
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6th Grade:
Science
3.11.spi.2, 3.12.spi.2, 3.12.spi.4, 3.13.spi.1
4.11.spi.2, 4.12.spi.1, 4.12.spi.2, 4.13.spi.1
5.11.spi.1, 5.12.spi.1, 5.14.spi.1, 5.14.spi.3
Science
3.5
4.8, 4.9
5.8
6.8, 6.10
Arkansas
Science
NS.1.3.3, NS.1.3.7, PS.7.3.4, PS.7.3.6
NS.1.4.3, NS.1.4.8, NS.1.4.13, PS.5.4.3
NS.1.5.2, NS.1.5.9, PS.5.5.1, PS.5.5.2, PS.5.5.5, PS.5.5.9
NS.1.6.2, PS.5.6.5, PS.5.6.5
Catholic Diocese of Memphis
Science
IV.4, V.1, V.2
V.3, V.4, V.6
V.1, V.4, VI.3
V.2, VI.1
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Objectives
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4. Create a temporary magnet using a common nail and a bar magnet.
5. Experiment with pennies and water droppers to observe surface tension of water .
901.636.2362
3050 central Avenue • MEMPHIS, TN 38111
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Scoop ice cream into your
root beer. Density makes it a
A hot air balloon goes up
because hot air rises.
To clean laundry, detergent
lowers the surface tension
of water so water will soak
into your fabric.
Pre-Visit Activities
1. Show the invisible lines of force around a bar magnet.
Place the magnet on an overhead projector and lay a transparency sheet over it.
2.
3. Make Cartesian divers from two-liter soda bottles.
http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/diver/index.html
Post-Visit Activities
1. Place two small cups in a line on a table. Put a ping-pong ball in the one closest to the table edge.
Challenge students to get the ping-pong ball out of that cup and into the other without touching the cups or the ball.
(Students must gently blow across the top of the cup to change the pressure inside and pop the ball out.) Research Bernoulli.
www.cmste.uregina.ca/Quickstarts/pdf/leapingppball.pdf
2. Extend your lab experience involving surface tension on a penny. Mix a measured amount of dishwashing soap with water.
Students record amount used and how many drops stay on a penny. Measure salt and mix with water. Record results.
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/Chem_p021.shtml
3. Design a board game that uses magnets.
Exhibits and Resources
Visit our Cultural History Exhibits upstairs to see an important use of electromagnetic energy. Examine an early x-ray machine
in our Saddlebags to Science 1830-1930 gallery.
Science & Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement --http://www.iit.edu/~smile/index.html
Reach Out! --http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/physicalsciences.html
Georgia State University -- http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/surten.html
Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development -- http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/lab/visco_exp/index.htm
Book our traveling Pink Palace Museum Suitcase Exhibits.
Book our traveling Pink Palace Museum Suitcase Exhibits. Magnets & Magnetism includes loadstone,
compasses and various magnets for K-5 student research. Electricity, grades K-8, features electroscopes, a
potato clock, batteries, wires, and bulbs for hands-on experiments.
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PINK PALACE MUSEUM • 3050 CENTRAL AVE. • MEMPHIS, TN 38111
WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG