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High Mountain Retreat
Students explore and analyze atmospheric conditions for a high mountain retreat. They examine the relationship between altitude, atmospheric pressure, temperature and humidity at a particular location. In addition, they write reports...
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Causal Patterns in Air Pressure Phenomena Section 3
Students investigate the effects of differences in air pressure on a system. They answer the question, "What makes a liquid go up a straw when you suck on it?".
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Causal Patterns in Air Pressure Phenomena Section 3
Students explore lift and Bernoulli's Principle using a relational causal model. Using paper and straws, they investigate lift and relate Bernoulli's Principle to everday occurences.
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Good News - We're on the Rise!
Students build and observe a simple aneroid barometer to discover changes in barometric pressure and weather forecasting. They graph changes in barometric pressure for two weeks and make weather predictions.
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It's Rainin', It's Pouring
Students take a quick examine part of the water cycle, and the combined gas laws. The lesson lead them through the conditions necessary for cloud formation and allow them to create clouds in three different hands-on activities.
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Don't Let Pressure Get to You
Young scholars study the ways peers can pressure them on a daily basis. They watch video segments on how to better deal with peer pressure.
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Reviewing Problems for the Gas Laws
In this gases worksheet, students apply gas laws to calculate the change in pressure or temperature depending on what has occurred to the gas. This worksheet has 11 problems to solve.
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Pressure
In this physics learning exercise, students use the clues at the bottom of the sheet to complete the crossword related to pressure. There are 15 clues to solve in the puzzle.
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Ideal Gas Law Worksheet
In this ideal gas law worksheet, students complete 8 problem solving questions to find pressure, volume and temperature of given gases.
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Water Lesson Plan
Students discuss the importance of water in our daily lives. In this physics lesson plan, students calculate the pressure of water tower systems. They investigate the effect of certain variables using a computer simulation.
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Magdeburg Hemispheres
Students investigate whether air exerts a force. For this physics lesson, students calculate air pressure using force and area information.
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Pressure, Density and Buoyancy
High schoolers investigate how changing pressure affects density. In this physics lesson, students explain the relationship between density and pressure. They observe the Cartesian diver in the lab as pressure is changed inside.
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Potato Chips Fragility
Students investigate why some potato chips crumple faster than others. In this physics lessons, students relate the cooking time to potato's fragility. They write a lab report about their findings.
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Water Rocket
Students study the basic operation of a water rocket. In this propulsionlesson students complete several experiments on constructing a bottle rocket launcher.
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Boyle's Law
Students experiment on Boyle's law using balloons and other common materials. In this chemistry lesson, students explain the relationship between pressure and volume. They solve problems relating to Boyle's Law.
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The Bounty of Bernoulli
Learners explain how Bernoulli's principle apply to some phenomena. In this physics lesson, students draw and explain the demonstrations shown in class. They research and design their own demo on Bernoulli's principle.
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Temperature and Pressure
Students conduct an experiment to determine the relationship between pressure and temperature. In this physical science lesson, students collect data and graph them. They compare the results of Celsius and Fahrenheit data sheets.
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Lesson tow
Students study the ocean and its characteristics. In this oceans lesson students complete a lab activity and are able to predict temperature of certain depths.
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Applied Science - Physics Pos Lab (Air Pressure)
Students examine physics. In this air movement lesson, students conduct an experiment that shows how air moves based on the pressure it's under. They watch the teacher complete the procedure and then try it on their own in a small group....
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What Crushed the Can?
Students examine the difference in pressure to objects. In this pressure lesson students complete a lab activity with a soda can in which they will make observations and hypothesize.
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Where There's Smoke......
Students use fundamental relationships between melting points, boiling points, solubility, temperature and pressure to develop explanations. In this chemistry lesson students complete an activity.
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From the Gulf of Mexico to the Moons of Jupiter
Students compare deep ocean conditions to those found on the moons of Jupiter. In this Earth science lesson, students consider the possibilities and conditions needed to support simple life. Students examine the habitats and life found...
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It looks Like Champagne
Learners interpret phase diagrams and explain the meaning of vocabulary words. In this ocean explorer instructional activity students describe two uses of super-critical carbon dioxide.
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Dive In
Learners study how buoyancy, pressure, and light can effect the work of underwater scientists. In this marine science lesson students complete a lab that allows them to better understand how pressure varies with altitude and depth.