Pocket Lab Demo's (Ryan Hainey)

Author

Ryan Hainey at La Canada High School

Demo 1:

Principles

What are the relationships between barometric pressure, altitude, and temperature?

Standards

Procedure

1. Ask students to discuss in groups what they think barometric pressure, altitude, and temperature are.

2. Ask students to discuss if these three phenomena have any relationship to each other.

3. Have students plan an investigation to test their conception of the relationship between these three variables.

4. Give student groups one pocket lab. Task them to use the Barometric pressure, altitude, and temperature (internal) functions on the pocket lab to collect data.

5. Have students investigate by their choosing.

6. Students return into groups, discuss there findings, then share their findings with the class.

Explanation

Questions

1. What are the relationships between altitude, pressure, and temperature?

2. What effects do altitude, pressure, and temperature have on climate and biome distributions?

3. What other factors influence weather?

Everyday examples of the principles illustrated

-Weather reports, planning for hikes, and building choices.

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References

• Pocket Lab

Additional Demo Ideas:

-Connect pocket labs at different positions on a tree to demonstrate niches and resource partitioning

-Place pocket labs on different substances to measure heat transfer

-Place pocket labs on a weather balloon

-Place pocket lab in a water proof case and throw it into the ocean to measure waves

-Place pocket lab in a ziplock bag and squeeze to measure changes in pressure

-Wear a pocket lab while riding a roller coster

-Place a pocket lab on a rocket and launch it

-So, so many cool things you can do!