Polycom Special Event
Properties of Materials: Liquid Nitrogen Show
with Fizzics scientist, Ben Newsome
Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2016
Time: 1-2:00 ET (12:00 CT, 11:00 MT, 10:00 PT)
Grades: 6th-8th grades
Partners: Author coordination/liaison: Elaine Shuck, Polycom, Inc.,
Event coordination: Sue Porter, Polycom Education Consultant
A show performance where your classroom becomes an interactive science lab!
- Find out how solids, liquids and gases change when rapidly heated and cooled.
- Smash a squash ball! Shrink a balloon instantly!
- What happens to living things if they are frozen?
- How can Newton's 3rd Law of Motion explain a liquid nitrogen sprinkler?
- Explore Charles Law using popping cans and expanding balloons.
- Just what is the Leidenfrost effect anyway?
Covers phase changes, expansion and contraction, basic cell theory, air pressure and the weather.
Join Australian content provider, Fizzics, and Fizzics scientist, Ben Newsome, for this session on The Property of Materials - Liquid Nitrogen Show
Questions? Email Sue Porter - polycomspecialevents@gmail.com