Air discovery experience

Activity steps

1 Watching the film in its entirety

2. Gathering students' reactions and questions, if needed

• Where does the short film take place? On the road, in a city, in a traffic jam...
• Who is the main character? A man in a yellow car.
• What is his problem? His car is stuck between two trucks, in a traffic jam.

Present the “Steps” cards to the students and have them analyze the character’s emotions:

• Calm (when he arrives).
• Disappointment (when he discovers the traffic jam).
• Annoyance (when he understands that he is blocked).
• Anger (when he can't reverse to get out).
• Surprise (when his chewing gum lifts the car).
• Joy (when he manages to escape). Why is the character surprised? Because chewing gum can't lift a car.

Print the materials for this activity...

3. Investigation

• Ask students to carry out an experiment to demonstrate what they are saying and to prove that it is not possible.
• Put the students in groups.

Using the following materials, ask them to recreate the chewing gum scene:

• Balloons.
• Plastic cars (children’s toy).
• Characters (Lego or Playmobil type).
• String (to tie the balloon to the car if necessary).
• Let the students carry out the experiment and recreate the requested scene.

4. Sharing. The groups present their experiment, the material they used and their conclusion: is it possible

or not? Once the conclusion is made, ask the students what, in their opinion, are the reasons why the car did not fly away. Collect their hypotheses on a poster so that you can keep them and reuse them in a later lesson about air.

Possible extension

• Unit on the properties of air to understand why what happens in the film is not possible.