This highly student-centered lab will help your students decide on the necessary data to collect to decide if in fact their pennies turned into silver or gold. Students will be able to practice their skills of writing claim, evidence, and reasoning statements, as well as practice creating explanatory models. Setup and implementation is easy with my teacher prep guide!
Concepts and skills addressed:
- Gas properties
- Pressure
- Forces
- Kinetic Molecular Theory
- Developing and Using Models
- Constructing Explanations
This activity is perfect for setting the stage for your unit on states of matter or gas laws.
Learning objectives: Your students will be able to…
- Construct explanatory models that help to explain the nature of gases
- Investigate the properties of gas pressure and its effect on different substances
Materials your students will need:
- Microscale vacuum apparatus includes: bell jar, base plate, vacuum pump, syringe, suction cup, balloons, plastic cup
- thermometer
- warm water
- marshmallows
- balance
This lab activity includes:
- 5-page student lab handout
- Explanatory model quick reference
- Scaffolded sections for obtaining data and constructing models
- Guiding questions
- Safety precautions
- Clean up instructions
- Teacher’s prep guide
- Answer key
Your students will love this lab because its fun and you'll love it because it's easy on your prep time!
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