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Investigation Question 1:
What is there between you and me?

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Assessment

Applying Students' Understanding

To assess how your students have adjusted their concept of the nature of air, give them the following picture examples and ask them the question that accompanies each one:

Image of many flags and the UN building in Switzerland.   Image of base jumpers floating in the air by a cliff near Geneva.   Image of a man blowing leaves with a leaf blower.

© Laura Middaugh

© Laura Middaugh

© Laura Middaugh

What is moving the flags?

What is holding up the parachutes?

What is blowing the leaves here?

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Revisiting Investigation Question 1

Complete this investigation by asking your students to reflect on this question and how their answers may have changed as a result of this investigation. Air affects things, which means that it exerts a force. Realizing that air affects things will help them recognize that even though it is invisible, air is still matter.

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At Utah's Vermillion Cliffs a siltstone butte of the Carmel Formation erodes and forms unusual shapes. © Michael Collier Image courtesy of the Earth Science World Image Bank, photo ID: ixvt1a

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