Air All Around Us!

Today the students investigated some of the properties of air.  They engaged in a demonstration of how air fills an "empty" space in bags and even inside objects such as sponges, clay pot pieces and rocks.  We started by dropping different objects into a bucket of water to observe what would happen.  We noticed that tiny bubbles began to escape from several of the items and move towards the surface of the water.  The kids loved watching this happen.  We talked about where they thought the bubbles might be coming from.  We then experimented with air inside of plastic bags.  Below are some pictures of our air explorations taken by our photographers Ally S., Carter and Michael J.