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Serc: Popping Up Some Fun! Lesson PlanSerc: Popping Up Some Fun! Lesson Plan
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
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K - 1st
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Serc: Popping Up Some Fun!

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In this hands-on activity, students will investigate the properties of popcorn and discover what makes popcorn pop. They will compare popped and unpopped corn and hypothesize about why popcorn pops, discovering that popcorn pops because of moisture inside the kernels and that popped popcorn weighs more than unpopped popcorn.

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Concepts

thermodynamics, laws of thermodynamics

Additional Tags

husk, kernel

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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