| Activities and Objectives |
| Activities |
Objectives |
| Explanation of Air Pressure |
Acquaint students with air pressure, what it is at sea level, how it decreases as altitude increases and how it affects various objects. |
| The Bernoulli Effect: Who was Bernoulli, how high air pressure on one side of an object and low air pressure on the other side affect objects like ping pong balls and airplane wings
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To demonstrate the effects of air pressure when air is blown on paper and how air pressure affects a ping pong ball floating on air. |
| Lifting Power of Air |
To demonstrate the lifting power of air by forcing puffed rice cereal up a tube with a hair dryer. |
| How a drinking straw works |
To demonstrate the effects of a partial vacuum on a liquid surface and how air pressure forces liquid up through a drinking straw. |
| Effects of a partial vacuum and how air pressure acts against a vacuum |
To demonstrate the force of air pressure in relationship to a peeled hard boiled egg, a candle and water in a dish and an inflated balloon and an empty jar |
| Downward and upward forces of air pressure |
To demonstrate how a combination of air pressure and hydrogen bonding (surface tension) will suspend a pane of glass in the air, to demonstrate the same phenomena using a glass of water and a 3x5 index card. To demonstrate the effects of the weight of air pressure on a sheet of newspaper. |
