Clouds, Climate, and Weather MSP
Summer Camp Course Supply List

Day One:
What is the Difference Between Weather and Climate?

• 36-50 bags of fun size M&Ms

What is Energy?

• Balloon cars (purchase the 75 cent cars for quality)
• Pull-back race cars
• Poppers
• Groan tubes
• Physics flyers

Can Energy Be Created or Destroyed?

• Solar cell night light device with battery (solar chargers) - drain batteries before activity
• Stop watches
• Clocks
• Black felt (to cover solar panels before time is started)

Can You See Thermal Radiation?

• Ceramic Reptile Heater

What is the difference between red light and blue light?

• Phosphorescent paper
• Red LED light
• Blue LED light

Dark energy?

• Solar grasshoppers
• IR filters/cellophanes/gel filters
• Rosco Thermoshield
• Desk lamps with incandescent and fluorescent bulbs
• IR goggles

What is beyond the rainbow?

• Rainbow glasses
• IR Goggles
• Ceramic heat lamp
• UV light (black light)
• IR markers and other markers
• Paper to draw secret messages

What is a convection cell?
For demo purposes only: 1 hot plate, 1 cake pan, silicon oil, aluminum powder, rubber spatula
Demonstrations show heat transfer processes of conduction, convection, and radiation.

• Conduction demo:
  • rods of different metals radiating (spokes) from a central hub
  • paraffin wax to show that different materials conduct energy at different rates (air is poor conductor)
• Convection demo:
  • hot plate
  • 1 liter Pyrex beaker
  • glitter
• Radiation demo:
  • heat lamp
  • standing in sunlight vs. standing in shade

Day Two:
This is a field trip day.

Day Three:
Density & Temperature Demos
For demo purposes only: IR thermometers, electronic balances, video camera, tripod, tape to film students skits

• Density demo:
  • Build density column before class:
    - different colors of food coloring
    - large glass cylinder (250 - 500 ml graduated cylinder)
    - water
    - sugar
    Make different concentrations of sugar water: 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, and 50%.

  • Balloons filled with different gases:
    - helium balloon
    - pressurized computer cleaning canned air bottle
    - dense gas balloon
    - CO2 & H2O vapor-blow up balloon
• Temperature demo:
  - smoke stack
  - fish tank filled with cold water
  - Erlenmeyer flask (small) with boiling water
  - aluminum foil
  - rubber band
  - food coloring
  

• Clean and dry 1 liter plastic bottle (punch hole in side before class)
• Styrofoam packing peanuts
• Fizz keeper pump caps
• Duct tape

If hot air rises, why is it cold in the mountains?

• Two liter bottle
• Tire valve to fit in cap of bottle
• Bike pump with pressure gauge
• LCD aquarium thermometer (Petco)

How can freezing make something warmer?

• Sodium acetate reusable heat pack (one for each student to keep)
• IR thermometer
• Hot plate and pot to boil water to recharge heat packs

How can clouds help keep the air warmer? & Do Cities Affect the Weather?

• Two liter bottle
• Tire valve to fit in cap of bottle
• Bike pump with pressure gauge
• LCD aquarium thermometer
• Glade air freshener
• Rubber gloves (one for each student)

Make clouds in bottle
Add some hot water to bottle, swirl, light match and blow it out, add to bottle (need the smoke): squeeze - no cloud, let go - instant cloud

• Two liter bottles with original caps (no hole in cap)
• Hot water
• Matches

Day Four:
IR thermometers and electronic balances in addition to supplies below.
Fronts in tank Demo

• Fish Tank
• Warm water
• Ice
• Red and Blue food coloring

How can clouds help keep the air warmer? & Do Cities Affect the Weather?

• Two liter bottle
• Tire valve to fit in cap of bottle
• Bike pump with pressure gauge
• LCD aquarium thermometer
• Glade air freshener
• Rubber gloves (one for each student)

What is the Greenhouse Effect?

• Layers of clothing
• IR thermometer

Greenhouse effect—cool vs. cool—white vinyl car interior vs. black vinyl interior—reflection vs. absorption of sun's energy

• Two fish tanks
• White vinyl to completely cover bottom of inverted fish tank
• Black vinyl to completely cover bottom of inverted fish tank

Can it really rain fish and frogs?

• Electric leaf blower
• Extension cord
• Clear cylinder or PVC pipe
• Gold fish crackers

Day Five:
Liquid nitrogen demos

• Liquid nitrogen
• Rose
• Helium balloon
• Racket ball
• Large metal bowl
• Saltine crackers
• Ingredients for ice cream, paper cups, spoons
• Tongs & gloves for handling liquid nitrogen