Overview
This lesson introduces a computer model that now includes the effect of warming up and cooling down the bike tire walls. They use this model to examine the relationships between speed of particles and the temperature of the gas as well as between temperature and pressure. Students use CODAP to collect data and then find a linear equation of the relationship between temperature and pressure. They use the equation to make predictions about what the pressure will be for temperature conditions.
Underlying Pages
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0. Student Directions -
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1. Why does the balloon expand? -
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2. Let's talk about our balloon sketches -
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3. Our experimental setup: the "warm up -- cool down" model -
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4. Using CODAP to develop a mathematical Pressure-Temperature model -
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5. Validating our mathematical model -
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Standards
Next Generation Science Standards
- Physical Science
- NGSS Crosscutting Concept
- NGSS Practice
Computational Thinking in STEM
- Data Practices
- Modeling and Simulation Practices
- Computational Problem Solving Practices
- Systems Thinking Practices