Classroom Programs: It's Cool in Your School
Miss Niki uses super-cold liquid nitrogen to create a superconductor.
What happens to matter when it is chilled to 300 degrees below zero Fahrenheit? Liquid nitrogen is the dramatic substance that allows investigation of the super cold. While observing the properties of cryogenic materials, explore how different industries use them every day.
“It’s Cool in Your School” aligns with the following points of the Maryland State Voluntary Curriculum:
Skills and Processes
Grades 7, 8, 9-12
- Design, analyze, or carry out simple investigations and formulate appropriate conclusions based on data obtained or provided. (A.1)
- Verify the idea that there is no fixed set of steps all scientists follow, scientific investigations usually involve the collection of relevant evidence, the use of logical reasoning, and the application of imagination in devising hypotheses and explanations to make sense of the collected evidence. (B.1a)
Chemistry
Grade 7
- Cite evidence to support the fact that all matter is made up of atoms, which are far too small to see directly through a microscope. Recognize and describe that different arrangements of atoms into groups compose all substances. (A.1b)
Grade 8
- Describe how the motion of atoms and molecules in solids, liquids, and gases changes as heat energy is increased or decreased. Describe what the temperature of a solid, liquid, or gas reveals about the motion of its atoms and molecules. (C.1b)