It's a crash test, Dummy
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A lesson plan for Grade 8 Science
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- Appropriate grades
- 8
- Subjects
- science (chemistry, technology and innovation)
- Provider
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
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This Science NetLinks lesson begins with an Internet exploration of how air bags in cars were developed to solve a very practical problem: saving lives in automobile accidents. It also examines some of the safety issues surrounding air bags. Students do a chemistry lab in which they mix baking soda and vinegar in a Ziploc® bag to recreate an air bag. Then students perform a crash test with a raw egg.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 8
- Goal 4: The learner will conduct investigations and utilize technology and information systems to build an understanding of chemistry.
- Objective 4.05: Identify substances based on characteristic physical properties:
- Density.
- Boiling/Melting points.
- Solubility.
- Chemical reactivity.
- Specific heat.
- Objective 4.06: Describe and measure quantities related to chemical/physical changes within a system:
- Temperature.
- Volume.
- Mass.
- Precipitate.
- Gas production.
- Objective 4.05: Identify substances based on characteristic physical properties:
