Classroom Resources: Gases

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  Atomic Spectra, Electrons, Redox Reaction, Gas Laws, Temperature, Volume, Pressure | High School

  Lesson Plan: Fireworks Emergency Lesson

  In this lesson, students will learn about electron structure, spectroscopy, gas laws, redox reactions, thermochemistry, and safety through reading the highly rated ChemMatters article, Fireworks! The lesson includes several activities to help promote literacy in the science classroom related to the reading. This lesson could be easily used as an emergency lesson plan for a substitute teacher, as most of the activities are self-guided.

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  Gas Laws, Volume, Temperature, Pressure | Middle School, High School

  Activity: Animation Activity: Gases

  In this activity, students will view an animation that explores how properties of gases (quantity, volume, temperature, and pressure) are related. This is done qualitatively through the balloon and bell jar scenarios. Quantitative relationships, with the corresponding laws, are summarized at the end.

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  Measurements, Volume | Elementary School

  Activity: Understanding Volume Measurements

  In this activity, students will use base ten-centimeter blocks to fill containers in order to understand the concept of volume. Through discussion and review of the data, the teacher will lead them to discover the formula for determining volume.

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  Chemical Change, Volume | Elementary School, Middle School

  Lab: Air Bag Design Challenge

  In this lab, students will learn how chemistry is used in air bags. Students will model the inflation of an air bag by performing a series of reactions using baking soda and vinegar in a Ziploc bag. During this investigation, students will see that there is a relationship between the inflation size of the bag and the amount of reactants used. Finally, students will be challenged to design an air bag that can help an egg endure a crash test.

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  Gas Laws, Pressure, Volume | High School

  Lab: Deriving the Gas Laws

  In this lab, students will investigate the relationships of the variables related to gases. They will draw particle diagrams and derive equations to express these relationships. They will then combine these relationships to derive the combined gas law and the ideal gas law. Finally, they will use the molar volume of a gas at STP to derive the ideal gas constant, R.

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  Kinetic Molecular Theory, Gas Laws, Pressure, Volume | High School

  Demonstration: Inflate and Shrink Wrap a Student

  In this demonstration, students will observe two situations. First a student will be lifted off the desk as other students blow air into straws connected to a garbage bag in order to inflate it. Secondly, the class will observe a garbage bag shrink wrapping a student as a vacuum removes air from the bag.

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  Gas Laws, Pressure, Volume, History | Middle School, High School

  Activity: Robert Boyle Video Questions

  In this activity, students will watch a video and answer questions about Robert Boyle. They will learn about his impact in chemistry, including Boyle’s Law which describes the relationship between pressure and volume of a gas.

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  Temperature, Volume, Gas Laws | Elementary School, Middle School

  Demonstration: Candle Mystery

  In this demonstration, students will observe and analyze how the change in temperature of a gas can affect the volume of a gas.

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  Gas Laws, Pressure, Volume, History | Elementary School, Middle School, High School

  Video: Robert Boyle Video

  This video tells the story of Robert Boyle, a great chemist and discoverer of Boyle's Law, which describes the relationship between pressure and volume of a gas.

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  Gas Laws, Pressure, Temperature, Volume, Kinetic Molecular Theory | Middle School, High School

  Animation: Gases Animation

  This animation explores how properties of gases (quantity, volume, temperature, and pressure) are related. This is done qualitatively through the balloon and bell jar scenarios. Quantitative relationships, with the corresponding laws, are summarized at the end. **This video has no audio**

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  Gas Laws, Kinetic Molecular Theory, Ideal Gas, Temperature, Volume, Pressure | High School

  Activity: Understanding Gas Laws

  In this activity, students use an online program to investigate gas laws.

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  Gas Laws, Pressure, Temperature, Volume | High School

  Lab: Three Station Gas Lab

  In this lab, students will investigate relationships of variables involved with gases. They will draw pictures and explain in words what they observe and why.

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  Gas Laws, Sublimation, Ideal Gas, Volume, Temperature, Pressure, Density, Phase Changes, Interdisciplinary, Density, Physical Change, Mole Concept, Dimensional Analysis, Measurements | High School

  Demonstration: Ideal Gas Law using Carbon Dioxide

  In this demonstration, students observe dry ice sublime while the CO2 gas fills a balloon. They then calculate the moles and volume of CO2 produced.

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  Gas Laws, Pressure, Volume | Elementary School

  Lab: The Growing Marshmallow

  In this lab, students will investigate the relationship between volume and pressure of a gas, using a plastic syringe and a marshmallow.

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  Gas Laws, Ideal Gas, Volume, Temperature, Pressure, Kinetic Molecular Theory, Density, Graphing, Density, Chemical Change, Stoichiometry, Balancing Equations, Chemical Change, Dimensional Analysis | High School

  Lesson Plan: The Gas Laws Unit Plan

  The AACT high school classroom resource library and multimedia collection has everything you need to put together a unit plan for your classroom: lessons, activities, labs, projects, videos, simulations, and animations. We constructed a unit plan using AACT resources that is designed to teach the Gas Laws to your students.

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  Gas Laws, Kinetic Molecular Theory, Ideal Gas, Temperature, Volume, Pressure, Density, Density, Experimental Design, Scientific Method | High School, Middle School

  Activity: Hot Air Balloon

  In this activity, students use their knowledge of Charles’ law to build a hot air balloon and evaluate its design.

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  Gas Laws, Density, Temperature, Pressure, Volume | High School

  Lesson Plan: Gases Unit Plan

  In this lesson, students will investigate gases similar to how scientists learned about them “back in the day.” Students begin by investigating gas behavior, then they investigate gas density and use this to interpret Avogadro’s hypothesis that gases under the same conditions combine in simple whole number ratios.

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  Pressure, Gas Laws, Kinetic Molecular Theory, Temperature, Volume, Molecular Motion, Intermolecular Forces | High School, Middle School

  Lab: Gas Pressure

  In this lab, students will understand what causes pressure in a container and the variables that affect pressure (volume, temperature, number of moles) by mimicking molecular motion of gases.

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  Gas Laws, Pressure, Volume, Temperature, Kinetic Molecular Theory, Graphing | High School, Middle School

  Activity: Simulation Activity: Gas Laws

  In this simulation, students will investigate three of the fundamental gas laws, including Boyle’s Law, Charles’ Law and Gay-Lussac’s Law. Students will have the opportunity to visually examine the effect of changing the associated variables of pressure, volume, or temperature in each situation. Also, students will analyze the gas samples at the particle level as well as manipulate quantitative data in each scenario. Finally students will interpret trends in the data by examining the graph associated with each of the gas laws. This lesson accompanies the simulation from the November 2015 issue of Chemistry Solutions.

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  Kinetic Molecular Theory, Pressure, Gas Laws, Volume, Temperature, SI Units, Molecular Motion | High School, Middle School

  Activity: Simulation Activity: Gas Law Variables

  In this simulation, students investigate variables of a gas. From the computer models, they can see how pressure, temperature, and volume effect gas behavior.

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  Density, Pressure, Temperature, Volume, Density, Error Analysis, Error Analysis, Measurements | High School

  Lab: Gas Density and Relative Molecular Mass

  In this lab, students will quantitatively determine the densities of four gases.

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  Kinetic Molecular Theory, Ideal Gas, Gas Laws, Volume, Temperature, Graphing, Accuracy, Error Analysis | High School

  Lab: Finding Absolute Zero

  In this lab, students will experimentally determine the value for absolute zero in degrees Celsius.

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  Gas Laws, Pressure, Volume, Temperature, Graphing | High School

  Lab: Exploring Gases

  In this lab, students will investigate the relationship between the variables of temperature, volume and pressure. Students will engage in three lab station activities that each demonstrate a particular gas law. Students will interpret the results, graph data points and relate given data sets to each of the three gas laws.

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  Gas Laws, Matter, Density, Density, Temperature, Pressure, Volume, Graphing, Observations, Measurements | High School, Middle School

  Lab: Pressure Bottle

  In this lab, students determine the relationship between volume and pressure of a gas and its temperature and address the common misconception that air does not have mass or density.

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  Renewable Energy, Conservation of Mass, Chemical Change, Volume, Pressure | Middle School, High School

  Lab: Power That Stinks

  In this lab, students will experiment with creating and capturing biogas, and have an opportunity to look at how energy is created from waste. They will explore the differences between non-renewable and renewable energy sources.