Skip to main content

Education Resource Library

Convection Currents

Grades 4-8 60 minutes Engineering

Convection Currents

Explore how differences in density can create motion in liquids. Then reflect on a demonstration of convection currents in action.

Resources

Lesson Plan PDF

Lab Connections Icon Lab Connection: Engineering for Earthquakes

Objectives:

  • Observe and analyze how temperature and density are related.
  • Apply their understanding of density to the phenomenon of convection currents.