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Can You Take the Pressure? Lesson PlanCan You Take the Pressure? Lesson Plan
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Teach Engineering
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7th - 9th
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1 hr
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2004
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Can You Take the Pressure?

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Do not let the pressure get to you. The first lesson in a unit of 22 introduces the concept of air pressure. Using background knowledge, the resource gives teachers the information they need to discuss how people measure air pressure and Bernoulli's Principle.

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air pressure, air, bernoulli's principle, force, aviation, aeronautics, technology resources

Additional Tags

air pressure, airplanes, bernoulli, force

Instructional Ideas

  • Demonstrate Bernoulli's principle by blowing across a piece of paper
  • Develop a graphic organizer for vocabulary

Classroom Considerations

  • Pupils should know that air has weight

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  • Provides assessment questions to use before and after the lesson
  • Includes suggestions for extensions

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