Can you crush a soda can using only the air around you? Use an engaging video to teach about the relationship between pressure, volume, moles, and temperature of a given gas, all done with the Ideal Gas Law.  

Concepts

boyle's law, the ideal gas law, gas pressure, air temperature, volume, moles

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Repeat the demonstration at 6:15 in the video either as a demonstration or as a lab activity supported with discussion questions
• Use video as an introduction to gas laws or to support knowledge learned after using the ideal gas law in class
• If using as an introduction, show video before giving direct instruction to support video for five minutes; have stations set up around the room, each supporting the ideal gas law through short experiments or problems to solve

Classroom Considerations

• Need a computer, Internet access, and a projection system
• Assumes the learner understands pressure, volume, temperature, and moles, and that they can calculate for an unknown

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Video has a simple demonstration at 6:15 which can be repeated in the classroom to further facilitate discussion
• Simple and engaging video to teach Ideal Gas Laws
• Dialogue in the video is witty and quick, which engages high school learners

Cons

• None

Common Core

RST.11-12.3