Students at Oskara Kalpaka Rudbarzu primary school in Latvia engaged in a theme-based study of air through hands-on activities and experiments. First grade students made balloons out of plastic bags and studied air composition. They observed weather and did experiments to learn candles need oxygen to burn. Older students made kites, pinwheels, fans and studied air pollution, wind strength, and how instruments measure air properties. Younger children made parachutes, planes and learned how air affects these objects. Overall, the program provided an interactive way for students of all ages to explore the topic of air through drawing, model making and experimental learning.

1. Oskara Kalpaka Rudbarzu primary school pupils were engaged on theme "AIR"

2. 1st grade students made a balloon Students from plastic bags made the balloon and blew it up with hot air from a hair dryer

3. 1st grade students studied air composition and made diagrams by computer

4. 1st grade students made the weather observation schedules

5. 1st grade students did the experiment with a candle Students found – the candle needs oxygen to blaze

6. 1st and 2nd grade students together with their parents made and flyed the kites

7. The students drawn the air-balloons

8. The kites drawn by students

9. Students drew wind turbines

10. 1st and 2nd grade students studied about air pollution and about exhaust gas from cars

11. 2nd grade students made the experiment with the paper planes

12. 2nd grade students discussed about environmental pollution and drew pictures

13. 2nd grade students made the pinwheels and weathervanes

14. 3rd grade students studied about the wind strength

15. 3rd grade students studied about wind

17. 2nd grade students made the applique works-balloons

18. Students and children from kindergaten studied about air pollution in Rudbarzi

19. With smoke we pollute the air

20. 5-6 years old students made fans and learned how to make wind with them

21. 5-6 years old students studied how wind blows

22. 4th grade students showed in their drawings various strength winds Very slow wind Snorter Hurricane

23. 2 and 3 years old children made small parachutes

24. 3rd grade students made experiments Take a balloon that is easily fixed to a cord and let air run out and you’ll see as the balloon moves along the cord

25. Children studied anemometer and other measuring instruments near school Kindergaten children made the planes and anemometer and practicaly tried how they work Anemometers (from Greek anemos - wind + metrein - measure) is meteorological gauge for measuring wind strength

26. 2nd grade students made exsperiments about the atmospheric pressure

27. 2nd grade students made experiments about air compression and expansion

28. 2nd grade students did experiments about sound

29. 4nd grade students tested the effectiveness of gasmask in air purification

30. 2nd grade students’ experiment “ Air weighs!”

31. 2nd grade students studied about fog

32. 2nd grade students studied wind generation

33. 2nd grade students studied atmospheric pressure and made the “ thermometer” The bottle filled with beet juice, children warmed with their hands and when air got warm, juice rose to the top

34. 3rd grade students studied atmospheric pressure

35. Students drew environmental pollution Diāna Slugoviča (3.kl.) Mišela Barsova (3.kl.) Mikus Garutis (5.kl.) Edvards Miļeško (3.kl.) Elvis Staņevičs (3.kl.) Amanda Ostrovska (2.kl.)