Summary
The Fixies — tiny helpers who live inside our machines — reveal how a vacuum cleaner uses fast-moving air to suck up dust and dirt. A quick full episode (about 6 minutes) from the how-things-work cartoon, easy to drop into a science or STEM warm-up.
Viewer safety
All ages
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
This episode shows how a vacuum cleaner uses fast-moving air to suck up dust and dirt.
- How does a vacuum pull dirt off the floor?
- Where does the dust go inside it?
- Why does a vacuum get weaker when it is full?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: vacuum, air, suction, dust, clean.
Try it: Blow through a straw at paper bits, then breathe in to pull them up — how is that like a vacuum?