Use air pressure to push, pull, open, close, and grab.
Learners build
A cardboard monster with a pneumatic mouth, a face, and a backstory of its own.
Learners start by connecting two pistons with a tube and testing how pushing one moves the other. Then they mount the pistons on a craft stick and attach a monster face they design and cut from cardboard.
From there, they add creature features, write a backstory, or try water instead of air to see hydraulics. It connects art and design, English language arts, and science and engineering.
Educator Resources
Student-facing slides introduce the concepts, guide the activity, and help learners reflect on what changed. Educator materials support setup, pacing, discussion, and extensions so this can work in classrooms, libraries, homeschool groups, clubs, or makerspaces.
What's included
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