My chemistry class was learning about gas laws, so I decided to create a story about a balloon that had to shrink his head in order to fit into his new helmet. The three gas laws involved were Boyle's Law, Charles's Law, and Avagadro's Law. The story map and script descibes that students learn how the effects of pressure, temperature, and the number of particles of a gas affect the volume it takes.
The story is narrated on youtube. The different specialists that the main character consults are named after the three gas laws above. They each give him advice on how to fit into his new helmet. The balloon, Red, finds a comfortable solution and uses it. The specialists' illustrations are the actual equations for each law, so students can relate the law to each character, as well as what each specialist prescribed.
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- Michael Bauzon
- Eagle River, AK
- I grew up in the san Francisco Bay Area, in California. I moved to Alaska in 2005 and have loved it since. I just recently returned from Sitka, Alaska where I and 22 other aspiring teachers started the Master's of Arts in Teaching, or MAT program.
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