Pressure Effects

Students discuss ways they might visually see pressure differences, and work in groups to create experiments to predict and prove what a change in pressure can do to objects exposed to the change.

Are you feeling the pressure? Let loose a little with a kinesthetic activity that models molecular motion in a closed space! The activity varies conditions such as volume and temperature and examines the effects on molecules.

Introduce your class to air masses and how they affect the weather with a lesson that focuses on the differences between high and low air pressure systems. The class explores actual weather data using archived weather data.

Blow your class away with a gust of humor as they watch this video about air pressure and wind. Along the way, they find that the density of air (as determined by temperature, altitude, and water vapor content) leads to air pressure...

Change is coming — but how much? Geology pupils discover the transformation of metamorphic rock using a well-rounded interactive. Topics include the effects of pressure and temperature on metamorphic rock, how time factors into the...

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?".

Young scholars explore hurricanes.  In this weather data interpretation lesson plan, students draw conclusions about the impact of Hurricane Floyd as it related to weather conditions. Young scholars read and interpret a tide data table,...

Young scholars examine air pressure. In this air pressure lesson, students perform a series of experiments to evaluate the effects of air pressure.

Students develop and test their ideas about air pressure and vacuums by conducting several investigations into the movement of fluids in tubes.

Students perform an experiment to show that water level is affected by air pressure.