Gas Laws

Activities

• Use this “Animated Gas Lab” to answer the questions on this worksheet about Boyle’s Law.
• And use the same “Animated Gas Lab” to complete the Charles’s Law worksheet.
• Have students do these Boyle’s Law problems (pdf).
• Do these Charles’s Law problems (pdf).
• Try these Combined Gas Law problems (pdf).
• These (pdf) are Ideal Gas Law problems and these (pdf) are both Combined Gas Laws and Ideal Gas Law Problems.
• This worksheet (doc) is a review of all the gas laws.
• Have students try this “Gas Laws Magic Square” (doc).
• Do this Gas Laws crossword puzzle (doc) or try this “Gases” (pdf) crossword with answers.
• Or try this Gas Law wordsearch puzzle (doc) with answers (doc).
• A question on a University of Washington midterm was, “Is Hell Exothermic?” This student’s response (doc) uses the gas laws to answer the question. Just thought I would throw that in for fun!
• Show this Flash animation with audio of “The Gas Laws.” 
• Abigail Freiberger of the Greater Atlanta Christian School provided this “Physical Characteristics of Gases” (doc) activity that uses animations on the web to investigate the physical properties of gases.
• Paul Bizot provided this “NASA Animated Gas Lab” (doc) worksheet to go with NASA’s Animated Gas Lab. It is targeted toward AP Chemistry students.
• “The Chemistry Blimp” is a WebQuest that explores the chemistry behind the Hindenburg disaster.
• Use NASA’s animated “Gas Lab” to do this simpler “NASA Animated Gas Lab” (doc) worksheet.

Labs

• These are “Simple, Inexpensive Classroom Experiments for Understanding Basic Gas Laws and Properties of Gases” (pdf).
• Use this Cartesian Diver (doc) demo to illustrate Boyles’s Law.
• Try these “Chemistry Is a Gas” (doc) demos to illustrate Boyle’s and Charles’s Laws.
• Do this Boyle’s Law Microscale experiment or this Charles’s Law Microscale experiment.
• “Gas Laws” is a virtual lab that uses this “Boyle’s Law” animation, this graph pad, and this “Charles’s Law” animation.
• Set up 11 lab stations with this “Gas Laws Smorgasbord” from Arbor Scientific.
• Have students do Discovery School’s “Temperature and Pressure” (pdf) lab, designed for grades 6-8, that uses carbonated sodas. It includes a “Temperature and Pressure Data Sheet” (pdf).
• Try Joyce Hooley-Bartlett’s “Exploration of Gasses” (doc) demos.
• In Beverly Frommel’s “Marshmallow Madness” (doc), student’s use plastic syringes and marshmallows to test one of the basic gas laws.
• Try Rosemarie Smith’s “Alka Seltzer and the Ideal Gas Law” (doc) lab. She has included teacher notes (doc) and a key for the lab (pdf).

Links

• Good Boyles’s Law animation: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/. . . 
• A Boyle’s Law animation that allows you to change gases and adjust the volume: http://www.chem.iastate.edu/group/Greenbowe/. . .
• Animated Charles and Gay-Lussac’s Laws: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/. . .
• Gas Law Calculators: http://www.1728.org/indexche.htm
• A Charles’s Law animation that allows you to change the temperature: http://www.chem.iastate.edu/group/Greenbowe/. . .
• A “Crush the Can” animation to show what’s happening inside the can molecularly: http://www.chem.iastate.edu/group/Greenbowe/. . .
• A Gas Law tutorial with animation and audio: http://legacyweb.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/betha/nealGasLaw/index.html 
• Animation of the way air pressure affects a baloon as it rises: http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/air_pressure/balloon.html 
• Good tutorial about gases: http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/gases/index.shtml 
• How the gas laws can make you a better diver: http://www.aquaholic.com/gasses/laws.htm