TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Dams
Through eight lessons, students are introduced to many facets of dams, including their basic components, the common types (all designed to resist strong forces), their primary benefits (electricity generation, water supply, flood...
Science Bob Pflugfelder
Science Bob: Make a Cartesian Diver!
This site presents a procedure for creating a cartesian diver, a miniature submarine which rises or sinks depending upon the water pressure within a closed bottle. The site also introduces basic concepts of water and air pressure.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Physical Properties of Water
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers physical properties of water, hydrogen bonding, surface tension, and vapor pressure.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Shot Under Pressure
Students use their understanding of projectile physics and fluid dynamics to find the water pressure in water guns. By measuring the range of the water jets, they are able to calculate the theoretical pressure. Students create graphs to...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Atmospheric Pressure With a Cup, Straw and Water
For this classroom lab activity, students will work with a plastic cup, straw, and drinking water to gain a better understanding of how atmospheric pressure works. They will be able to see how an imbalance in the atmosphere causes a...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Observing the Effect of Temperature on Change of State and Gas Pressure
This lab serves as a short introduction to both changes in state and air pressure/the gas laws. The students will heat a small amount of water in an aluminum can. They will then invert it in a bucket of cold water and crush the can using...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Exploring Atmospheric Pressure by Making a Barometer
Students create their own barometer, calibrate it with the actual air pressure data, and compare that data with the boiling temperature of their water. They learn from this that atmospheric pressure affects the boiling points of liquid....
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix Series: How Hot Is Boiling Water on Mt. Everest?
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, observe the relationship between elevation, boiling point, and atmospheric pressure. Then answer a self-correcting challenge question.
Other
Garden With Insight: Vapor Pressure in the Garden
Basic information about the role of vapor pressure in the garden. In addition, a free garden simulator can be downloaded in which various quantities can be measured.
Ministry of Education, Sports & Culture (Samoa) Government
Mesc: Samoa School Net: Forces to Make Weather: Weather & Water Cycle
Explains three forces of nature and how they impact the weather. These include infrared rays from the sun, differences in air pressure, and wind flow when hot and cold air masses meet. Supported by lots of visuals.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Keep It Bottled Up: Linear Rates of Pressure Increase
When two or more chemicals react, other substances such as gases may be produced. The rate at which the reaction takes place can be affected by a number of different factors including temperature. In this activity, you will see how...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Best Amount of Water to Fly a Bottle Rocket
In this rocket experiment, students will investigate the question, "Which amount of water will cause the rocket to stay in the air the longest?" Students will compare how long the rocket was in the air with how much water was in the...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Osmosis Using Water and Gummy Bears
In this biology classroom lab, students investigate the affect of soaking a Gummy Bear in water. They collect measurements of height, width, and mass before and after the soaking of the candy overnight. Students calculate % change for...
Other
Water on the Web
Water on the Web (WOW) is an advanced site allowing students to actively participate in data analysis from real research sites. Lesson plans on a range of topics are provided. There is also a tutorial for using Excel to graph WOW data.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Under Pressure
Students studying pressure will better understand its concepts with this virtual experiment that tests how pressure changes in air and water as the fluids, gravity, container shape, and volume changes.
Center of Science and Industry
Cosi Columbus: Can You Stand the Pressure
Science experiment that demonstrates the four states or phases of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of how you change water from a liquid state to a gaseous...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Under Pressure
Investigate the effect a dam's shape plays in its ability to withstand a load, the water pressure acting on it. Determine the difference in the compression rate at the top of a dam with that at the bottom.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Boiling Water Below Its Boiling Point
Mars has such low atmospheric pressure that any water at the surface would boil away. In this activity, students see that they can get water to boil below its "typical" boiling temperature when they drop the pressure in a closed...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Super Soaker Lab
In this lab environment, look at how the pressure behind a stream of water affects the speed with which the water moves as it leaves a nozzle.
Other
Water on the Web: The Chemistry of Oxygen Solubility
This resource provides a description of oxygen solubility in water as it relates to temperature and pressure with introductory definitions and sample data to analyze. Animations require Shockwave plugin.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Boiling Water With Ice: Effect of Pressure on the Boiling Point of Water
In this activity, which is a discrepant event with guided inquiry, the teacher will go through the steps of boiling water with ice. Through the young scholars telling and recording WHAT is happening, the teacher is showing the students...
University of Maryland
University of Maryland: Boiling Water by Pumping
A page from the University of Maryland Physics Lecture Demonstration Facility. Provides directions for a teacher demonstration which utilizes a Bell jar and vacuum pump to show the dependency of boiling point upon pressure. Shows...
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon: Vapor Pressure Tank
Basic design of a demonstration machine that will lower the vapor pressure and cause water to evaporate at room temperature.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Humidity, Evaporation, and Boiling
Learn about the relationship between vapor pressure of water and capacity of air to hold water vapor, the relationship between relative humidity and partial pressure of water vapor in the air, and how to calculate vapor density,...
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