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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Atmosphere: Pressure, Density, and Temperature Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key points about atmospheric processes involving air pressure, air density, and temperature. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
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Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Air Pressure and Wind: Winds: Let It Blow

For Students 3rd - 5th
Animated interactive helps young researchers understand how winds develop.
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: An Air Science Experiment

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] With three simple items (ball of paper, 2 liter pop bottle & hair dryer) you can demonstrate the reality of air pressure. This experiment is user friendly.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: A Change in the Winds: Studying Bernoulli's Principle

For Students 9th - 10th
You can actually make objects come together by blowing air between them. This is a simple way of implementing Bernoulli's principle. Find out how wind changes air pressure to bring to objects together in this easy and fun science fair...
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Handout
USA Today

Usa Today Weather: Understanding Storms and Fronts

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses air pressure, fronts, and storm formation. Links on page to well-illustrated and animated additional information.
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Science is Fun

Fun Science: The Collapsing Can

For Students 9th - 10th
Air pressure can be dramatically shown with this simple experiment that only requires an aluminum can, tongs, a 2-3 quart sauce pan and a stove.
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Activity
Bill Nye

Bill Nye: A Wing and Some Air

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial by Bill Nye helps the learner to understand the concept of pressure. Using a simple paper U, learners can see the effects of low pressure, then learn what's happening on a molecular level.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Observing the Effect of Temperature on Change of State and Gas Pressure

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: Atmospheric Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch and learn with Bill Nye the Science Guy while exploring concepts such as atmospheric pressure, and combustion chemistry by manipulating gases and air. [1:37]
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: How Atmospheric Pressure Affects Objects

For Students 9th - 10th
A bell jar, Peeps and balloons demonstrate how changing the atmospheric pressure around objects can change their size. [3:18]
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Article
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: How Weather Affects Air Quality

For Students 9th - 10th
How is air pollution affected by weather? Some types of pollution are worse in the summer heat, while others are worse in cold winter weather.
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Other

Educational Objects: Does Air Have Weight?

For Students 4th - 7th
Explore the properties of air with this virtual experiment. Add air to a balloon to discover the property of weight.
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American Chemical Society

American Chemical Society: Best of Wonder Science: Air: It's Really There [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
An experiment to explore the properties of air, using a cup placed upsidedown in water.
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Website
Oklahoma Mesonet

University of Oklahoma: High and Low Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Oklahoma meteorology tutorial explores both high and low pressure systems--how they form and the different forms they take.
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Website
Oklahoma Mesonet

Oklahoma Climatological Survey: Air Masses

For Students 9th - 10th
This Oklahoma Climatological Survey explores how air masses form, as well as the weather formations, which tend to appear on the edges of these masses in what is known as a front.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: The Air Is There

For Teachers 6th - 8th
An experiment to see how the temperature of an object affects how high it bounces. This site contains web links and notes for the teacher.
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Science Museum of Minnesota

Science Museum of Minnesota: Air Cluster

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Interesting site with links to activities about wind and air in many forms. Browse the different activities and investigations on the properties of air on the toolbar to the left of the page.
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Unit Plan
Carnegie Mellon University

Chem Collective: Osmotic Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
When a balloon is filled to near bursting with SF6 is left in air, it will often burst after a period of time. This is because the smaller N2 molecules diffuses into the balloon while the larger SF6 molecules remains causing the balloon...
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Activity
Bill Nye

Bill Nye: A Wing and Some Air

For Students 1st - 5th
Try this at-home science experiment to learn about air pressure.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: High and Low Pressure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will experience a hands on reference for high and low pressure as it relates to air movement. This activity will help with understanding high and low pressure behavior.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Experiments With Air and the Pressure Air Exerts

For Teachers K - 1st
In this indoor or outdoor lab, students listen to the book Let's Try it Out in the Air. Then they have an opportunity to try the air experiments suggested in the book and write in an observation journal.
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TOPS Learning Systems

Tops Learning Systems: Top Science: Air Force [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Experiment investigating atmospheric pressure using simple materials.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Measuring Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Student learn how atmospheric pressure is measured and what is meant by gauge pressure.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Temperature vs. Atmospheric Pressure: Is There a Correlation?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Relating Temperature to Atmospheric Pressure by using the CBL 2 unit and the temperature probe in relation to the gas pressure probe.

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