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- 4th - 6th
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Students create a model to use to explore air pressure, and conduct various experiments with air pressure. They crush a can, place a balloon into a bottle Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students analyze air pressure and its effect on the weather. They explain the meaning of air pressure in their own words. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students examine why air pressure is hard to notice. They observe the height of a liquid in a tube over time and lift a table with balloons. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students study passive causal agents, such as air pressure, in a system. They conceptualize air pressure as passive and omnidirectional, with molecules that make up the air bouncing off surfaces with which they have contact in all directions equally. Full Review »
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- 6th - 11th
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Students investigate the effects of differences in air pressure on a system. They answer the question, "What makes a liquid go up a straw when you suck on it?". Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students compare models depicting air pressure, They determine which model best conveys the omnidirectional and passive nature of air pressure Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students discuss the different units of pressure. They complete an activity in which they measure air pressure and examine Bernoulli's Principle. They discover how engineers use air pressure when designing different products. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students discover that air pressure is pushing on us all the time although we do not usually notice it. This lesson discusses the units of pressure and gives the students a sense of just how much air pressure is pushing on them. Students utilize an air pressure worksheet imbedded in this plan, and build paper airplanes to demonstrate the effects of air pressure. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore air pressure. They observe what happens when you drink from a straw. Students experiment and create models to prove examine air pressure and vacuums. Sstudents contrast how linear and relational casusal models explain what happens. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students engage in a lesson about how the weather is influenced by different air pressures. They differentiate between high and low pressure while defining the term of density. Students also identify the warm and cold fronts for how they influence weather. Full Review »
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