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Note: It is best to use the slightly more expensive, thicker plastic cups for experiments as you will get more reliable results with them.

Teaching About Acoustics and Sound Waves Using Plastic Cups

Plastic cups can be used to teach about acoustics and sound waves by making a cup telephone or a squeaking cup.  Sound travels in waves and needs an amplifier for the sound waves to be heard. Plastic cups provide an easy and relatable means of demonstrating this.

Plastic Cup Telephone

This is a classic activity for kids that demonstrates how sound waves travel as vibrations.  

1. Use two plastic cups and make a hole in the bottom of each.
2. Tie a piece of string through the bottom hole so that the cups are connected by the string.
3. Pull the string is taut.
4. Let the kids experiment with different strings and wires to ascertain which gives the best results.

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The Squeaking Plastic Cup

With the cup phone, we learned that the sound waves from our voice vibrate through the string and are amplified by the cup on the other end.  We can demonstrate that same concept another way, using just one cup:

1. Make a hole in the bottom of a plastic cup. We used a small rotary tool, which worked perfectly.
2. Thread 8-12 inches (about 20 -30 cm) of string through the hole of the plastic cup and tie it around a toothpick.
3. Pull the string so that the toothpick nestles in the bottom of the cup and secures the string.
4. Wet the string that is hanging below the cup. Use your wet fingers or a damp paper towel and slide your fingers or the towel down the string.
5. This creates a vibration in the string, which is amplified by the cup.
6. Experiment with longer or shorter strings and larger or smaller cups to alter the sound.

What do you notice about the sound of longer vs shorter strings?  How does it alter the sound if you don’t wet the string?  What happens to the sound if you use a different sized cup?

Show Air Pressure Using Plastic Cups

Air pressure is a challenging concept to explain to students, and it is always best to demonstrate it.

1. Fill a plastic cup with water.
2. Cut a cardboard piece that is larger than the top of the cup.
3. Ensure that the cardboard makes contact with the rim of the cup.
4. Huolding the carboard on the top of the cup, turn the cup upside down
5. Take your hand away.
6. The cardboard will stay in place, and the water will remain in the cup.

What’s happening? Why doesn’t the cardboard just fall and the water rush out? The air pressure pushing up against the cardboard is more than the weight or pressure of the water, and the result is that the water is held in place by the air pressure. You can alter the experiment by using differing amounts of water and different size containers.

Plastic Cup Flyer – Use Plastic Cups To Show The Physics Of Flight

Do you think a plastic cup can fly?  Not just tossing it and watching it tumble about, but in a smooth flight path like a paper airplane?

You’ll need:

• 2 Plastic Cups
• Tape (we used painter’s masking tape)
• Rubber bands

It sounds almost unbelievable that you can teach the physics of flight using plastic cups. For this activity, you will need to explain the Magnus effect to the students. The Magnus effect is an example of Bernoulli’s theorem, which explains how differences in air pressure can create “lift” which facilitates flight.  This is the concept behind the design of airplane wings and allows a plane, that is quite heavy, to fly.  We’re going to do something similar to our cups.

1. Tape 2 cups together with their narrowest or bottom ends facing each other.
2. Use five to six rubber bands that are interlinked or joined to create an elastic string.
3. Wrap the rubber band string tightly around the tape joining the cups.
4. Using the string like a catapult, send the cups spinning off into the air.

How it works:

The spinning motion of the cups will create an area of low pressure at the top of the cups and high pressure under the cups. Since air moves from high to low pressure, this will create lift and allow the cups to fly.  The higher air pressure under the cups pushes them up towards the low air pressure and keeps the cups in the air.

You can vary this task by using different sizes and weight cups. If doing this in a class or group setting, form teams to compete and see who can fly their cups the furthest.

Technology And Engineering With Plastic Cups

Plastic cups are ideal for stacking and building. They can be used alone or with other simple products like wire, pipe cleaners, dowel rods, chopsticks, kebab sticks, or straws.

Build A Castle Using Plastic Cups

Imaginations can be fired up by the challenge of building a castle using plastic cups and a few extra materials. Encourage kids to draw their designs first, just like an architect would design a building. 

Once it’s built, ask how the design could be improved.  Try implementing features that increase the strength and stability of the design.

Build A Tower Using Plastic Cups – Without Touching The Cups

Sure, anyone can build a tower.  Can you build a tower without touching it with your hands?

You can do this as an exercise with one child, though it’s easier (as well as more fun and chaotic) with a group.  This activity is an excellent problem-很有味道的熟妇[15p] challenge.  Simple use the materials provided to manipulate and stack the cups.

Each person should be given:

• Two pencils
• 2 feet of string
• 2 rubber bands

Use 10 plastic cups (or more if you like) – 10 cups will allow the construction of a typical pyramid with 4 cups at the base.

Several people can work together to balance grip the cups between pencils.  Will you lasso the cups with the sting, or use the pencils like chopsticks?  Challenge everyone to be creative.

Counting

You can make simple exercises by making stacks of cups in sequence. Place one cup on the table. Make a stack of two cups next to it, then three cups, etc…

Mix it up with skip counting: try counting by twos, or multiples of three, etc., and stacking the cups accordingly.

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