Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Planning and Carrying out Investigations
Crosscutting Concepts
Cause and Effect
Knowledge
Students know:
- Gases can be compressed very tightly or expanded to fill a very large space.
- As the temperature of a gas increases, the gas particles move faster and hit the sides of their container more frequently.
- As the temperature of a gas decreases, the gas particles move more slowly and hit the sides of their container less frequently.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Plan and carry out investigations to determine the relationship of the variables: pressure, temperature, volume, and density.
- Create graphical representations of data from the investigation.
- Analyze and interpret data from the investigation.
- Communicate information collect from the investigations.
- Use safe lab procedures.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- The changes in volume, pressure and temperature of a gas demonstrate a pattern that can be related mathematically.
- These relationships can be direct or indirect.
Vocabulary
- Pressure
- Volume
- Temperature
- Density
- Mass
- Gas
- Solid
- Liquid
- Control
- Dependent variable
- Independent variable
- Direct relationship
- Indirect relationship
- Molecular-kinetic theory of matter
- Heat vs. temperature
- States of matter
