PhET Teacher Ideas & Activities: Gas Laws

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written by Sarah Borenstein

This item is a middle school lesson plan developed specifically for use with the PhET simulation "Gas Properties". It provides step-by-step instructions for setting up the simulation in a computer lab and engaging students with a series of related questions and tasks. Student worksheets are available in printable format and include graph construction/analysis. This lesson won a PhET Gold Star for excellence.

This item is part of a larger collection of educational resources developed by the Physics Education Technology project (PhET).

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/contributions/view/3010

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Thermo & Stat Mech - First Law = Adiabatic Processes = Isobaric Processes = Isochoric Processes = Isothermal Processes - Kinetic and Diffusive Processes = Kinetic Theory - Models = Ideal Gas - Thermal Properties of Matter = Temperature	- Middle School	- Instructional Material = Activity = Interactive Simulation = Lesson/Lesson Plan

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	This resource was featured by the Physics Front collection from January 6, 2012 until March 11, 2012. View the feature here!

Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2008 University of Colorado at Boulder
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Keywords:: Boyle's Law, First Law of thermodynamics, computer lab, conservation of energy, energy, heat, ideal gas, middle school, middle school lesson, thermodynamics
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created October 22, 2008 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:: August 18, 2016 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: July 1, 2008

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