- Aerated Water
- Air Engine
- Air Table
- Are you Hot or Not?
- Balancing Act
- Bending Beams
- Block the gap
- Braille
- Bridge the Gap
- Chalk Wall
- Changing Faces
- Chaotic Motion
- Circle of Discovery
- Circle of Discovery- The Internet
- Circle of Discovery-Bridge Design
- Circle of Discovery-Ideas hub
- Circle of Discovery-Internet
- Circle of Discovery-Medicine
- Circle of Discovery-photography
- Circle of Discovery: Design - Earthquake
- Circulation
- Colour Wheel
- Communication Codes
- Communication Dishes
- Computer
- Crystallography
- Digestive System
- Down the Drain
- Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Fibre Optics
- Flight Simulator
- Gear Table
- Handshake Mirror
- Harmonograph
- High Flyer
- Hit the Target
- Horizontal Periscope
- Human Battery
- It's Electric
- Larger Than Life
- Lift Me Pull You
- Light Table
- Lock Box
- Making Waves
- Mini Harmonograph
- Mobile Phone
- Move It
- Nervous System
- Newtons Cradle
- Organ Pipe
- Organ Pipe Tune
- Oscillating Pendulums
- Pendulums
- People Power
- Periscope
- Prove Pythagoras
- Radar
- Radio Station
- Reactable
- Reflection Refraction
- Robot Arm
- Science of Sport
- Sensation
- Simple Camera
- Simple Circuits
- Smoke Tunnel
- Solar Energy
- Sound Waves
- Structures and Stresses
- Telescope
- The Exhibition
- The Eye
- The Lung and Chest Cavity
- The Wheel Race
- Thermal Imager
- Tornado
- Tower of Hanoi
- Universe Wall
- Up and Down
- Vertical Periscope
- Viscosity
- Viscosity Plungers
- Volume and Mass
- Vortex
- Watch Your Waste
- Weight Lifter
- Wheels Within Wheels
- Wind Tunnel
Volume and Mass
Volume and Mass has cubes made of differing materials of equal size and cubes of equal mass
Activity.... Do -Think - Learn
a) We can work out the amount of something by measuring its volume and mass. The amount of matter it contains is called its mass and is measured in kilograms. Mass remains constant wherever you are.
Which cube do you think will have the most mass?
What do you notice about the mass of each cube?
b) We can compare the size or quantity of something by measuring its volume and its mass. The amount of space taken up is its volume. It is measured in cubic metres and litres (metric) or cubic feet and gallons (imperial). Volume can be changed by altering the temperature and by compression.
What do you notice about the volume of each cube?
Which cube will be the easiest to lift?
The Science Bit
Volume is the capacity of something, whilst mass is the weight of something. Different states (i.e. gas, liquid and solid) change in different ways, for example a pint of water will change shape if it is poured from a jug to a glass, but its volume will stay the same, where as a gas will expand to fill the glasses volume.
This exhibit can show that if the volume is larger it does not necessarily mean the mass is also large. Children are able to discover that the biggest object isn’t always the heaviest and vice versa.
Curriculum Links
Sorting and using materials
- That every material has many properties which can be recognised using our senses and described using appropriate vocabulary
- To record observations of materials
Grouping and changing materials
- That materials often change when they are heated
- To make observations and simple comparisons
- That there are a range of materials with different characteristics
- That many materials change when they are cooled
Last Modified: 29/07/2011
