Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Under Pressure: Ball Bouncing Dynamics
Many sports use a ball in some way or another. We throw them, dribble them, hit them, kick them, and they always bounce back. What makes a ball so bouncy? In this experiment you can investigate the effect of air pressure on ball bouncing.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Air Is It Really There?
By watching and performing several simple experiments, students develop an understanding of the properties of air: it has mass, it takes up space, it can move, it exerts pressure, it can do work.
Bill Nye
Bill Nye: A Wing and Some Air
Try this at-home science experiment to learn about air pressure.
Other
Easy Science Experiments: The Incredible Can Crusher
Can you crush a soda pop can with your bare hands? Try this experiment where with the help of air pressure you can show your friends what kind of strength you have. Make sure you stay safe! There is a video included.
Hunkins Experiments
Hunkin's Experiments: Potato Peel a Banana Automatically
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This one is a...
Hunkins Experiments
Hunkin's Experiments: Get an Egg In/out of a Bottle
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. An easy-to-do example includes using air pressure...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Science Projects and Experiments: Weight of Air
Kids learn by experimenting with science. Project showing how air does have weight and creates air pressure.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Lab 6: Why Keep an Eye on the Barometer?
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores hurricanes. For this particular lab, students will study data from 2005 hurricane season including Hurricane Katrina. Students compare air pressure and wind speed and also "they...
Creative Science Centre
Creative Science Centre: Newton's Experiments
A collection of projects that recreated Isaac Newton's experiments as he would have built them in the seventeenth century. The projects include the mechanical advantage possible using three levers, the trajectory of a projectile, air...
Science is Fun
Fun Science: The Collapsing Can
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.
Other
Educational Objects: Does Air Have Weight?
Explore the properties of air with this virtual experiment. Add air to a balloon to discover the property of weight.
American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society: Best of Wonder Science: Air: It's Really There [Pdf]
An experiment to explore the properties of air, using a cup placed upsidedown in water.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Experiments With Air and the Pressure Air Exerts
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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: High and Low Pressure
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.
TOPS Learning Systems
Tops Learning Systems: Top Science: Air Force [Pdf]
Experiment investigating atmospheric pressure using simple materials.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Collapsing Bottle Experiment
Explore the effect of changing temperature on air pressure using a plastic soda bottle.
Science is Fun
Science Is Fun: Egg in a Bottle
An air pressure experiment that shows how to get a hard-boiled egg into a glass bottle that has a mouth smaller than the width of the egg. A lit match is used in this activity.
Other
Steve Spangler Science: Soda Bottle Prank
This resource demonstrates atmospheric pressure using a soda bottle and water.
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.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv Do It: Balloon Hovercraft
PBS site allows you to discover how air pressure works as you learn how to build your own hovercraft.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Linear Models and Latex Explosion!
Students use latex tubes and bicycle pumps to conduct experiments to gather data about the relationship between latex strength and air pressure.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Air Is All Around You
In this science lesson students will be asked the question, "Does air take up space?" and "Does air have weight?" Students will conduct experiments that prove that air has mass, takes up space, and exerts pressure.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What's Air Got to Do With It?
Students are introduced to the concepts of air pollution and air quality. The three lesson parts focus on the prerequisites for understanding air pollution. First, students use M&Ms to create a pie graph that expresses their...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Bottle Fountain Experiment
Demonstrate how heating expands air molecules by constructing a bottle fountain powered by air pressure.