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Air-Powered Mini Rocket

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Does the position of the clips make a difference? The activity provides directions to build and test a paper rocket. Pupils attach paper clips to the rocket in different configurations and measure the distance the rocket flies each time....
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Air Pressure Demonstration

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders observe various physics experiments. They study kinetic theory and how a hovercraft works.
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Demonstration of Ideal Gas Law

For Teachers 9th - 12th
You know that liquid nitrogen turns into a gas at room temperature. Place some in a two-liter bottle for a physics demonstration of the ideal gas law. Beware, however; this is a dangerous demonstration! Not to mention that you may not...
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Weather and Climate: storms

For Teachers 9th
The main types of storms are described in this presentation and characteristic facts are given. The main details thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes and winter storms formations are listed. Geographical features that affect weather...
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Under Pressure

For Students 9th - 12th
For this pressure worksheet, students read about Dalton's Law of Partial Pressure, about vapor pressure and about collecting gases over water. They answer 6 questions using the concepts of Dalton's Law of Partial Pressure and they solve...
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Extreme Research Report

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Investigate weather facts and figures to determine what has caused particular climate conditions. Research air pressure, temperature, wind, and humidity. Conduct online research to determine what air pressure, wind, temperature, and...
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Why Does the Wind Blow?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Without wind, the weather man wouldn't have much to talk about! Blow away your junior meteorologists with a creative demonstration of how wind works. The activity uses an empty soda bottle and compressible Styrofoam peanuts to illustrate...
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Become a Weather Wizard

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Accurate weather forecasting is something we take for granted today, making it easy to forget how complex it can be to predict the weather. Learn more about the terms and symbols used to forecast the weather with an earth science lesson...
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Pressure and Volume of Gases

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate pressure and volume as they relate to gases. In this pressure and volume lesson plan, students observe multiple demonstrations related to air pressure. The develop an understanding of the relationship between...
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A Bernoulli Levitator

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the Bernoulli Principle. They explore how they can suspend an object in the air by blowing down on it.
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Casual Pattersn in Air Pressure Phenomena

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students experiment with a jar, plastic bag and a rubber band to perform a science experiment. Students study the photocopy of Thinking About Relational Causality. Students explore the concept of a pressure-related phenomenon that...
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Meteorology Madness

For Teachers 4th
Students probe the dynamic weather changes through several hands-0n activities in this seven lessons unit. The hydrologic cycle, clouds, atmosphere, air movement, fronts, and forecasting form the components presented in this unit.
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Bending Air

For Teachers Pre-K
Students experiment with air. In this air lesson, students tape one end of a strip of paper down and blow on it. They place several items in front of the strip to see which items stop the air and which items the air can move around. 
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Weather Forecasting

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the concepts of weather forecasting. Students locate the current weather in a specified city. In groups, they record the specified weather information and make predictions of weather. Students justify their...
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Science: How's the Weather?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders brainstorm meteorological terms to create a semantic web using SuperPrint. For each topic, they create instruments, such as barometers or psychomotors, that they use to make scientific predictions about the weather. After...
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Why Do Hot Air Balloons Float?

For Students 9th - 12th
In this Boyle's Law worksheet, students solve eight problems using the inverse relationship between the volume of a gas and the pressure of a gas at a constant temperature.
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Gases, Pressure, and Volume

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the relationship between pressure and volume in gases. In this gases, pressure and volume lesson plan, students learn about the meaning of pressure. They observe different nail boards and are able to sit on the...
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Relationships: Pressure, Volume and Temperature

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders investigate the relationships of pressure and volume and pressure and temperature of gases. In this gases lesson plan, 10th graders use an inflated balloon to show the relationship between volume and temperature of the air...
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Why Do Hot Air Balloons Float?

For Students 9th - 12th
In this Charles' Law worksheet, students solve 8 gas law problems where the pressure is constant and the volume varies directly with the temperature.
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You Can Take the Pressure!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers construct and use a barometer over a period of 1-2 weeks to investigate and predict upcoming weather from barometric pressure.
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Weather

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students read a weather map. Using the local newspaper, Columbus Dispatch, small groups investigate that air has pressure and that temperature and pressure are inversely related in weather. They display their findings on a graph or...
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Weathering the Weather

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
A fine weather poem sets the tone for this short lesson on the natural phenomena that affects weather. Weather topics covered are, air moisture, temperature, pressure, direction/speed, and clouds.
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The Cloud in the Bottle

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners observe a demonstration of how pressure and temperature affects cloud formation.
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Why did the can crush?

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars watch a demonstration to ascertain why a soda can crushed. They make observations and hypothesize about why a soda can crushed and relate the difference in pressure to its affect on objects around us (soda can)....

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