PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Understanding Air: Climate Change and Modeling Combustion
In this instructional activity, students learn about the components of air and the chemical reactions that release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and explore the connection between carbon dioxide, climate change, and environmental...
McREL International
Mc Rel: Whelmer #33 Learning Activity: Density Balloon
A simple activity that investigates the effect of heat on the volume of a gas. The activity is presented in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Balloon Blow Up
Students can experiment at home with expanding balloons, dancing raisins, and pop cans that have been shaken up.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Junior Chemistry With Chemguy
A collection of video lectures to teach junior high students topics in chemistry. Lectures cover topics in understanding the periodic table, compounds, chemical bonding, Avogadro's number, balancing chemical equations, stoichiometry,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Buoyancy Brainteasers: Balloon in Car Puzzler
This interactive brainteaser from the NOVA: "Voyage of Doom" Web site challenges you to explain the behavior of a helium-filled balloon in a moving car.
New York University
New York University: States of Water
Use this resource to learn about the three different phases of water; solid, liquid, and gas. What happens to water as it changes into a solid or gas? Includes short and easy to do activity.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Popcorn Is a Gas
From the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE) program. A lesson plan in which students explore the pressure-temperature-volume relationships by performing a popcorn lab investigation. Intriguing. Great...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Relationships: Pressure, Volume, and Temperature
From the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE) program. A lesson plan that centers around a lab investigating the gas laws of Boyle, Charles, and Gay-Lussac. Data is collected, analyzed and discussed.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: As a "Matter" of Fact
In this lesson plan site, learners will define matter and compare properties of solids, liquids and gases.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: What a Gas!
In this lesson plan, students will understand and explain that air occupies space, visual effects of air and how air exerts force.
University of Maryland
University of Maryland: Ideal Gas Law Volume of One Mole
A page from the University of Maryland Physics Lecture Demonstration Facility. Provides directions for a teacher demonstration of the ideal gas law. Shows apparatus and set-up; provides suggestions. Easily adaptable as a student project...
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Charles' Law
The General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, or Chem 1, is broken into several sections covering various aspects of topics related to chemistry. This section deals with gas laws and specifically with Charles' Law and Gay-Lussac's law.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Avogadro's Law
The General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, or Chem 1, is broken into several sections covering various aspects of topics related to chemistry. This section deals with a series of topics related to gas laws including information directly on...
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Dalton's Law of Partial Pressure
The General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, or Chem 1, is broken into several sections covering various aspects of topics related to chemistry. This section deals with partial pressure and gas laws, with specific attention given to Dalton's...
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Molar Mass of a Gas Mixture
The General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, or Chem 1, is broken into several sections covering various aspects of topics related to chemistry. This section deals with the molar mass of gas mixtures. Applications of Dalton's law are also...
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Diffusion: Random Motion With Direction
The General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, or Chem 1, is broken into several sections covering various aspects of topics related to chemistry. This section deals with diffusion along with topics such as concentration gradient and random...
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Effusion and Graham's Law
The General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, or Chem 1, is broken into several sections covering various aspects of topics related to chemistry. This section deals with both effusion and its relation to Graham's law.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Viscosity of Gases
The General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, or Chem 1, is broken into several sections covering various aspects of topics related to chemistry. This section deals with the property of gases allowing for a resistance to flow known as viscosity.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Van Der Waals Equation
The General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, or Chem 1, is broken into several sections covering various aspects of topics related to chemistry. This section deals with the van der Waals Equation and equations for states of real gases.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Condensation and the Critical Point
The General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, or Chem 1, is broken into several sections covering various aspects of topics related to chemistry. This section deals with the properties of gases in relation to condensation and the relation of...
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Standard Entropies of Substances
With an overview of topics related to chemical equilibrium, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and entropy. Other topics covered include standard entropy, gases, and more.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Gas Laws
This site from the encyclopedia Wikipedia provides a basic overview of the three gas laws (Boyle's, Charles', and Graham's Law) and information on the ideal gas law is found here.
Kidport
Kidport Reference Library: Energy
A simple introduction to energy, offering information on hydro-electric energy, fossil fuels, nuclear power, solar energy, and wind energy.
Museum of Science
The Atom's Family: Phases of Matter
Help the Phantom choose a material and observe the changes at different temperatures in the molecule chamber. What happens to the elements or molecules as the temperature changes?